taken from StarChild:The Solar System

Use the bank to complete the statements
 

asteroid	meteoroids	gravitational	satellites	elliptical
galaxy	solar system	Astronomers	mass	comets

 

The words " _________________" refer to the Sun and all of the objects that travel around it. These objects include planets, natural ______________ such as the Moon, the________________ belt, , ____________and ____________________ . Our solar system has an ____________________ shape and is part of a ______________known as the Milky Way. The Sun is the center of the solar system. It contains 99.8% of all of the __________ in our solar system. Consequently, it exerts a tremendous ____________________pull on planet s, satellites, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. ___________________believe the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. However, they differ in their beliefs about how the system formed. Some believe the whole solar system formed from a single flat cloud of gas, while others believe it formed when a huge object passed near the Sun, pulling a stream of gas off of the Sun. ____________________theorize the planets then formed from this gas stream.
 

Text from the AVI The Solar System
 

rotating	nuclear	planets
massive	gravitational	Helium.
gases	Hydrogen	Venus
Mars	Mercury	Earth
rock	center	solar

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The solar system formed from an immense  ____________________cloud of gas and dust, the ________ nebula. The sun's ___________ fires ignited at the dense __________of this nebula. The _______________were born in the swirling currents of the great cloud.    Planets near the sun, _______________ , ________________,____________ , and , evolved as globes of___________ .  They were too small and their gravitational fields too weak to capture
and hold the __________ from the nebula. But far from the sun, the planets Jupiter and Saturn, with powerful _____________ fields, did attract and hold thick gaseous atmospheres of  ____________ and _____________

Standard4

•     know the appearance, general composition, relative position and size , and motion of objects in the solar system

Make generalizations about the inner planets
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Make generalizations about the outer planets
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