Earth’s place in the universe

Patricia Lopez
5th Grade
5ESS1 Earth's Place in the Universe

1. Earth’s Place in the Universe
Patricia Lopez
5
th
Grade
5ESS1. Earth’s Place in the
Universe

2. Our Solar System

3. Planets
Inner Planets
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Out (Gas) Planets
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

4. What about Planets?
Planet DiameterPeriod of
rotation
Distance
from the
sun
Mercury 88 Days35.98M mi
Venus 224 Days
Earth 7,917.5 mi
Mars 687Days
Jupiter86,881.4 mi
Saturn 888.2M mi
Uranus 84 Years
Neptune 2.795B mi

5. Earth’s Moon
Has 1 satellite called Moon or Luna
It is responsible for the Earth’s oceans
It is the only extraterrestrial place humans
have visited
¼ Earth’s Diameter
1/50 Earth’s Volume
1/80 Earth’s Mass

6. What about Earth?
3
rd
planet from the sun
Has moderate to mild temperatures year
round
Its atmosphere has nitrogen and oxygen
It has liquid water
Provides the right energy for life as we
know it
93 million miles from the Sun

7. How far is that?
To get the idea of our size and distance in
relation to the sun, we will go outside to the
football field, I will be on one end holding a
pencil, you will all be on the other end curled up
into a ball. The eraser on the pencil is earth and
you are the sun.

8. Day and Night
When we are facing the sun, it is daytime, and it is
night time on the opposite side of the world
When we are facing away from the sun, it is
nighttime and it is daytime on the opposite side of
the word

9. Works Cited
Earth and Moon to Scale. (2003). Retrieved
on June 3
rd
, 2016 from www.freemars.org
Grade 5
th
Science Resources. (2007). Delta
Education.
The Planets (2016). The Planets of the
Solar System. Retrieved on June 5
th
, 2016
from www.theplanets.org