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What are the similarities and differences of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?. Carlos Antonio Guanzon 7-Amorsolo. What will we study?. Order of the planets Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Similarities Differences. Order of Planets. www.planetsforkids.org.
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What are the similarities and differences of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars? Carlos Antonio Guanzon 7-Amorsolo
What will we study? • Order of the planets • Terrestrial Planets • Mercury • Venus • Earth • Mars • Similarities • Differences
Order of Planets www.planetsforkids.org
Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars en.wikipedia.org Picgifs.com
Closest to Sol, 4,880 km Nineplanets.org
2nd Planet from Sol, 12,103.6 km www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net
Third planet from Sol, 12,756.3 km http://mpe2013.org/
4th planet from Sol, 6,794 km Space.com
Similarities • Inner planets • Terrestrial • compact, metal And rocky surface, • Dense inner cores • Relatively small in size • Do not have planetary rings • Few or no Moons Universetoday.com
Differences • Atmosphere • Axial Tilt en.wikipedia.org
Sources for images http://nineplanets.org/mercury.html www.planetsforkids.com http://www.universetoday.com/15502/planets-in-the-solar-system/ http://www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net/venus.html http://mpe2013.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28planet%29 http://www.universetoday.com/50287/terrestrial-planets/ http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html http://www.picgifs.com/graphics/einstein/
Sources for References http://missionscience.nasa.gov/nasascience/what_is_a_planet.html http://www.space.com/25986-planet-definition.html http://nineplanets.org/mercury.html http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus http://nineplanets.org/earth.html Sunearthday.nasa.gov/2012/transit/comparison.php www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf1-2.php http://www.universetoday.com/50287/terrestrial-planets/ http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html http://nineplanets.org/venus.html http://nineplanets.org/mars.html http://nineplanets.org/earth.html http://universetoday.com http://livescience.com