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I've worked on this presentation for my student in grade 4. She was studying about the Solar System and so I thought this will also be helpful to other teachers. I hope you find this useful. Thank you

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Solar System

It is the largest known asteroid.

Ceres

It is found between Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroid Belt

It is the head of a comet.

coma

These are meteors that land on earth’s surface.

meteorites

Place where a planet turns or an imaginary straight line drawn through the centre of the sphere.

axis

It is the amount of hydrogen by mass in the sun.

75%

It happens when light from the Sun is blocked by the Moon.

Solar Eclipse

It is the spinning action of the earth.

rotation

It is the

rotation

Pattern that repeats regularly.

cycle

Of the moon

lunar

Path of one object moving around another object.

orbit

Stages of a cycle.

phrases

One complete orbit.

revolution

Full spin of an object on its own axis.

rotation

How long does it take for the moon to travel around the Earth?

28 days

It is the speed of light.

300,000km/second

It provides the Earth with heat and light.

Sun

These are made up of ice, gas , dust and small rocky particles.

comets

It was one of the brightest comets ever observed in the 20th century.

Hale-Bopp

These are irregular-shaped pieces of rock and metal that exist in space.

asteroid

These are small pieces of rocks in space that have broken off from a planet or an asteroid.

meteoroids

A number of meteors fall from a single point in the sky.

Meteor shower

Shooting stars

meteors

Egg-shaped or oval-shaped

elliptical

The track left by something that has passed by.

trail

It is the largest known asteroid.

Ceres

It is the head of a comet.

coma

These are meteors that land on earth’s surface.

meteorites

These are small pieces of rocks in space that have broken off from a planet or an asteroid.

meteoroids

Place where a planet turns or an imaginary straight line drawn through the centre of the sphere.

axis

A number of meteors fall from a single point in the sky.

Meteor shower

It is the amount of hydrogen by mass in the sun.

75%

It happens when light from the Sun is blocked by the Moon.

Solar Eclipse

It provides the Earth with heat and light.

Sun

It is the number of days that make a complete revolution.

365 days

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