SOLAR SYSTEM

Introduction
• What is planets ?
• Define planets ?
• What are the 9 planets and description
• What is earth
• Ecosystem (Lithosphere,
Hydrosphere, Atmosphere)
What is planet ?
Planet is a celestial body moving in a
elliptical orbit around a star.
Define Planets
Below is a brief overview of the eight primary
planet in a solar system.
 What are the 9 planets ?
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto
• MERCURY is the smallest and fastest moving of all
planets. Since it is relatively close to the sun. It is
invisible the only a short time after sunset and a
short time before sunrise.
• VENUS the planet nearest the earth, is the brightest
of the heavenly bodies, except the sun and moon.
• EARTH is a water world, with two-thirds of the
planet covered by ocean.
• It’s the only world known to harbor life.
• MARS has a reddish-orange color and can thus easily
identified by naked eye.
• JUPITER the largest of the planets, has a diameter
more than ten times that for the earth. In brightness,
it is the second only to venus.
• SATURN can be seen with the naked eye only under
the most ideal conditions. It has 21 moons.
• URANUS is the most unusual of the planets un
appearance, for it has three rings revolving around its
center. These rings are made of up of countless
small particles of matter.
• NEPTUNE is the eighth and farthest
known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In
the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by
diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the
densest giant planet.
• PLUTO is the most distant member of the solar
system, was discovered in 1930. The discovery was
made with the aid of mathematical calculation,
fallowed by a study of sky photographs.
• WHAT IS EARTH?
• Earth is our home planet. Scientists think Earth formed billions
of years ago. Four planets in the solar system are bigger than
Earth.
• What is ECOSYSTEM?
• An ecosystem is a community of living organisms
in conjunction with the living components of their
environment (things like air, water and mineral soil),
interacting as a system.
• LITHOSPHERE outermost shell of a terrestrial
type planet or natural satellite that is defined by its
rigid mechanical properties. On Earth, it is composed
of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that
behaves elastically on time scales of thousands of
years or greater.
• HYDROSPHERE is the combined mass
of water found on, under, and above the surface of
a planet, mirror planet or natural satellite.
• ATHMOSPHERE is a layer or a set of layers
of gases surrounding a planet or other material body,
that is held in place by the gravity of that body. An
atmosphere is more likely to be retained if the gravity
it is subject to is high and the temperature of the
atmosphere is low.
• WEGENER proposed continental drift theory in
1912 suggesting about the movement of continents.
• SILICON makes up over 25% of the earth’s crust.
• The hardest among rocks is called
METAMORPHICS ROCKS.
• The water vapor which is present in the air is called
HUMIDITY.
• NIMBUS CLOUDS
are our familiar rain and snow clouds.
• Most of the stars are observed to be arranged in
definite groups, which are known as constellation
• Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing
for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet
or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
• CUMULUS CLOUDS is a dull gray in color, and
usually extend unbroken over a wide area.
• STRATUS CLOUDS are thick, mountain-like
masses that are often seen on a hot summer day.
They usually float at a height of 2km above sea level
• CIRRUS CLOUDS are flat layers often seen close
to the horizon in the early hours of the day. Their
average height is about 2 to 7km.
• A FOSSILS is any remains or trace of plant or animal that lived
in an earlier geological.