Stars and planets

• Name the planets

  • mercury
  • venus
  • earth
  • mars
  • jupiter
  • saturn
  • uranus
  • neptune
• What are the rocky planets and how were they formed

  • mercury
  • venus
  • earth
  • mars

  formed because the rocks gathered near the sun and became planets
• What are the gaseous planets and why were they formed

  • jupiter
  • Saturn
  • uranus
  • neptune

  gas planets gathered together at distances away from the sun and Became planets
• Asteroids are a lumps of rock which are in orbit around the sun but are too small to be called planets
• The asteroid belt is located between mars and Jupiter
• Comets are lumps of ice and dust which are in highly eliptical orbit around the sun
• An astronomical unit is the average distance from the centre of the earth around the sun
• a light year is the distance light travels in one year