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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
