Carlos Antonio Guanzon 7-Amorsolo What are the similarities and differences of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars? Carlos Antonio Guanzon 7-Amorsolo

What will we study? Order of the planets Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Similarities Differences

Order of Planets www.planetsforkids.org

Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars en.wikipedia.org Picgifs.com

Closest to Sol, 4,880 km Nineplanets.org

2nd Planet from Sol, 12,103.6 km www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net

Third planet from Sol, 12,756.3 km http://mpe2013.org/

4th planet from Sol, 6,794 km Space.com

Similarities Inner planets Terrestrial Relatively small in size compact, metal Do not have planetary rings And rocky surface, Dense inner cores Few or no Moons sunearthday.nasa.gov/2012/transit/comparison.php Universetoday.com

Differences Atmosphere Axial Tilt en.wikipedia.org

Sources for images http://nineplanets.org/mercury.html www.planetsforkids.com http://www.universetoday.com/15502/planets-in-the-solar-system/ http://www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net/venus.html http://mpe2013.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28planet%29 http://www.universetoday.com/50287/terrestrial-planets/ http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html http://www.picgifs.com/graphics/einstein/

Sources for References http://missionscience.nasa.gov/nasascience/what_is_a_planet.html http://www.space.com/25986-planet-definition.html http://nineplanets.org/mercury.html http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus http://nineplanets.org/earth.html Sunearthday.nasa.gov/2012/transit/comparison.php www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf1-2.php http://www.universetoday.com/50287/terrestrial-planets/ http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html http://nineplanets.org/venus.html http://nineplanets.org/mars.html http://nineplanets.org/earth.html http://universetoday.com http://livescience.com