Planets on Parade

Our Solar SystemPresented by

Lisa Haws

How many planets are in our solar

system?•Mercury•Venus•Earth•Mars

•Jupiter•Saturn•Uranus•Neptune•Pluto

The Sun

• Biggest star in the Solar System

• Gives heat and light to every planet in our solar system

• If you could drive to the sun in your family car, it would take 150 years to get there!

Mercury

• Closest to the sun

• After Pluto, the smallest planet

• One day on Mercury is 59 Earth days!

Venus

• Second planet from the sun

• Called the Morning Star or the Evening Star

• One of Earth’s neighbors

Earth

• Third planet from the sun

• One moon• Only planet

where we know there is life!

Mars

• The Red Planet

• Named after the Roman god of war

• Very cold!

Jupiter

• Largest planet in our solar system

• Made of whirling gases

• Home of the Great Red Spot

Saturn

• Beautiful rings made of ice, rock and dust

• 22 moons• Made of gas;

so light it floats!

Uranus

• Tipped on its side

• 15 moons and 10 rings

• Smaller than Saturn and Jupiter

Neptune

• A stormy, windy planet

• Faint rings and eight moons

• Very cloudy

Pluto

• Smallest planet

• Hard, rocky and icy

• Trades places with Neptune

Asteroid Belt

• Between Mars and Jupiter

• Chunks of rocks circling the sun

• Separates rocky planets from gas planets

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1. Why is the sun important?

a. It is the biggest planet in our solar system.

b. It is the biggest star in our solar system.

c. It gives heat and light to every planet in

our solar system.

d. It makes our solar system pretty.

That is correct!Good job!

2. How many moons does the Earth have?

a. It has two moons.

b. It has no moons.

c. It has one moon.

d. It has three moons.

That is correct!Good job!

3. Which planet is the largest one in our Solar System?

a. The sun.

b. Mars.

c. Jupiter.

d. Mercury.

That is correct!Good job!

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