1. Our Solar System

2. Can You Name the 8 Planets (and Asteroid Belt) in Order?

4. Mnemonic Devices My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos Men Very Easily Make a Jug Serve Useful Needs My Very Easy Method: Just Sleep Until Noon My Very Excellent Mother Just Sat Under Neptune My Very Excited Mother Just Sat on Needles

5. Groups of Planets Inner Planets - The Terrestrial Planets Includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars Small in Size Very Dense Rocky Outer Planets - The Gas Giants Includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Large in size Low Densities Gaseous

7. What makes up a solar system? Planets Asteroids Moons Comets Star Meteors

8. Solar System Vocabulary Star - Giant ball of burning gas held together by gravity

9. Solar System Vocabulary Moon - natural satellite which orbits a planet Planet - object orbiting a star that is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity

10. Solar System Vocabulary Asteroid - small bodies made up of rock and metal which orbit the sun Meteor - meteoroid (smaller than asteroids) that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere Comet - small body of ice and rock that orbits the sun; originates from outer solar system; has a coma and a tail