PPT-Chapter 20: Our Solar System

Inner Planets Inner Planets often called Terrestrial Planets Rock Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Asteroid Belt separates inner and outer planets Outer Planets Outer Planets known as Gas Giants. Our Solar System and Its Origin. . How was the Solar System Formed?. A viable theory for the formation of the solar system must be . based on physical principles (conservation of energy, momentum, the law of gravity, the law of motions, etc.), . The processes by which stars and planets form are active areas of research in modern astrophysics. The formation of our own solar system is central to the first half of our course, and important to the second half as well when we study the formation of stars. Part 1. Survey of the solar system. 1. What do you know (or think you know)?. Confer with your tablemate (or people in front or back of you) and write down five things you think you know about our solar system. . Ag. Earth Science . Ms. Weigel. 23.1 The Solar System . The Planets: An Overview. Two Groups of planets. Terrestrial Planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars- relatively small and rocky . Jovian Planets- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune- are huge gas giants. © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.. 6.1 A Brief Tour of the Solar System. Our goals for learning:. What does the solar system look like?. © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.. What does the solar system look like?. Solar System . in a roll. Ron Thompson. Our Solar System. Our Solar System. Cut a 4 foot piece of 2” wide . register . tape. Write “. SUN. ” at one end and “. PLUTO/KUIPER BELT. ” on the other end. The processes by which stars and planets form are active areas of research in modern astrophysics. The formation of our own solar system is central to the first half of our course, and important to the second half as well when we study the formation of stars. © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.. 6.1 A Brief Tour of the Solar System. Our goals for learning:. What does the solar system look like?. © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.. What does the solar system look like?. . The solar system is a group of objects that interact with one . another.. The solar system is the gathering of objects in space .. About 4.6 billion years ago in our solar system was formed. . THE sun. This work is protected by U.S. copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning. Dissemination or sale of any part of this work (including on the World Wide Web) will destroy the integrity of the work and is not permitted. The work and materials from it should never be made available to students except by instructors using the accompanying text in their classes. All recipients of this work are expected to abide by these restrictions and to honor the intended pedagogical purposes and the needs of other instructors who rely on these materials.. . To View the presentation as a slideshow with effects . select . “View”. on the menu bar and click on . “Slide Show.”. . To advance through the presentation, click the right-arrow key or the space bar.. Ingredients?. Planets. Their Moons, Rings. Comets. Asteroids. . Meteoroids. . Kuiper Belt Objects. The Sun. A lot of nearly empty space. Solar System Perspective. Orbits of Planets. All orbit in same . Our solar system is ancient. . Early . astronomers believed that Earth was the center of the universe and all other heavenly bodies orbited around Earth.. Our Solar System. We now know that our sun is the center of our solar . Prepared by: Parshati Patel. Our Solar System. Our Solar System. Our Solar System. What makes up our Solar System?. Star (Sun). Planets (8). everything that orbits the Sun. Dwarf planets. Comets. Asteroids.