The Solar System

Explore our Solar System! Identify planets and learn key astronomy facts.

1) Our Solar System - Identification of Planets Click on the blue dot to fill in the name of the star and planets. Use the following Word Bank to identify each celestial body in our Solar System. You must spell the names of the planets correctly:Uranus, Earth, Saturn, Mercury, Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Neptune Neptune Uranus Saturn Jupiter Mars Earth Venus Mercury Sun YouTube Watch the video and answer the following 5 questions using information from it. Listen carefully! Video Which planets are considered ice giants. Venus and Mars Jupiter and Earth Uranus and Neptune None of these According to the video, what is the Oort Cloud? The outer edge of our Solar System spherical in shape an collection of icy debris All of these; True or False: Our solar system is one of over 500 solar systems found in the Milky Way galaxy. True False What is the name of the galaxy in which our solar system is located? The Snickers galaxy The Milky Way galaxy The Reese's galaxy The Three Musketeers galaxy What defines a planet as a 'terrestrial planet?' They are made of a rocky, solid surface. They don't have ring systems. They have few or no moons. They are relatively small. All of these are characteristics of the terrestrial planets. Welcome to CK-12 Foundation Click here for the link - cK12 - Reading assignment. Please read the attached assignment and then answer use that information to help you complete the matching section. cK12 Reading Assignment Use the reading assignment to answer the following questions. astronomical unit the distance between the Sun and Earth. 1 AU=93 million miles. wandering stars actually planets seen by early astronomers that move in the night sky (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) Copernicus the man that hypothesized that the Sun was the center of the universe, but didn't publish his writings until after his death. Galileo developed a telescope good enough to see Jupiter and moons revolving around the planet. He proposed that this is how the planets move around the Sun. exoplanet a planet that orbits a different star than our Sun. 5.2 AU from the Sun Jupiter gravity the attractive force between objects with mass. The Sun's huge mass keeps the planets from flying off into space nebula a large cloud of dust and gas that scientists think shrunk and began spinning to create our solar system 164.8 years The number of Earth years it takes for Neptune to make one complete orbit around the Sun. 0.62 years The time it takes for Venus to complete one orbit or revolution around the Sun. It is less than one Earth year.