The Sun, Moon and Earth By: Owen, Sarah W., and Gabriel

The Earth By: Sarah W.

The Earth is 70% water. From space it looks like a big, blue marble. The circumference of the Earth is 24,000 miles.

The Earth is 93,000,000 miles from the sun. We orbit the sun. It takes 365 and a ¼ days to orbit the sun. To be precise days. Every 4 years we get a leap day to make up for the forth day. Our distance from the sun makes Earth perfect for life.

We are the third planet from the sun. Mercury is first, then Venus, then Earth! There are eight planets in the solar system. A fun way to remember them is to do this: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos!

Our Earth has an invisible line going through the north pole all the way through the south pole. That invisible line is called the axis. The axis is tilted. That is what makes day and night.

It takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds for the earth to orbit 1 full time around. That is one day.

On Earth there are over 1,000,000 species of animals, insects and plants. They are all living things. They all need air. They all need water. They all need sunlight.

The Sun By: Owen

The Sun is a star. It is the only star we can see in the day. The Sun is a huge ball of burning gas.

The Sun is in the very middle of the Solar System. Earth is the third planet away from the Sun. Earth is 93 million miles away from the Sun. There are 9 planets in the Solar System.

The Sun faces one side of the earth it is day and the other side is night. That is what causes day and night.

Seasons occur because when the earth tilts to one side the side that’s tilting toward the Sun is having summer and the other side is having winter.

The inside of the sun is called the core. The outside of the sun is called the surface.

The earth is the is the perfect distance away from the sun so we can live. Without the sun there would not be any life on earth.

THE MOON By Gabriel

The moon is the closes to the earth. The moon is smaller then the earth if the earth was pizza the moon would be a pepperoni. The sun shines on the moon that is how the moonlight up.

New moon means that you can not see the moon that means the sun does not shine on the moon. When the right side of the moon is shining the sun is shining on the moon. The big wholes that you see on the moon is could a sea.

There is no oxygen on the moon. It cannot rain or storm on the moon. The moon orbits the moon. It takes 27 days to orbit the moon. When you can seethe whole moon it is called full moon

The moon is 239,000 miles the moons distance from us is 2)160 miles

The moon

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