1. Solar System Solar systemBy
Cinoi Littlejohn
Emily Bercel

2. Solar System

3. Mercury Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.
It takes 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.
It takes a day and a half to make one year.
Mercury has no atmosphere.
Mercury is a Terrestrial planet.

4. Venus
It is covered with thick clouds of that makes a greenhouse affect that makes it very hot.
It has no moons!
The rotation around the sun is 225 earth days.
Venus is a terrestrial planet.

5. Earth One year is 365 earth days.
Only planet that has life as we know it.
Every 2 years the sun, earth and mars line up witch is called a opposition.
Earth is a terrestrial planet.

6. Mars The rotation around the sun takes 24 hours and 37 minutes.
It is named after the god of war of ancient Romans.
It is the 4th closets planet to the sun.
Mars is a terrestrial planet.

7. Jupiter It is the biggest planet in our solar system.
It takes 12 years to orbit the sun once.
It takes 10 hours for one rotation.
Jupiter is a gas planet.

8. Saturn It is the second largest planet in our solar system.
Named after a Roman god.
Its temperature is -178 degrees c.
Saturn is a gas planet.

9. Uranus It takes 84 years to orbit the sun once.
4 seasons last 20 years!
It orbits on its side.
It has fainted rings.
Uranus is a gas planet.

10. Neptune It is also know as the blue giant.
It atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium.
Neptune was the god of the sea.
Neptune is a gas planet.

11. Reference page
Google
student center
the planets

12. Glossary
Terrestrial planets- the name often given to the four inner planets.
Gas planets- the name often given to the outer planets.
Orbit- the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.
Revolution- the movement of an object around another object.

13. Glossary Rotation- the spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
Axis- an imaginary line that passes through earth center.
Greenhouse- the process by which heat is trapped in the atmosphere by water vapor.
Asteroid belt- the region of the solar system between the orbits of mars and Jupiter where many asteroids are found.
Asteroid- rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small and numerous to be considered planets.
Atmosphere- the envelope of gasses that surrounds earth or other planets.