Saturday 5 November 2011
Day and Night and Earth's Rotation
The part of the Earth that is facing the Sun experiences daytime. Meanwhile, the part of the Earth that is facing away from the Sun experiences night time.
Day and night occur due to the rotation of the Earth on its axis.
The Relative Size and Distance Between The Earth, The Moon and The Sun
1. We can compare the size of a sago, a glass marble and a basketball to show the relative size of the Moon, the Earth and the Sun.
2. The ratio size between the Sun and Earth is 100 : 1.
3. The ratio size between the Earth and Moon is 4 : 1.
4. The table below shows the ratio size between the Moon, the Earth and the Sun.
Moon : Earth : Sun 1 : 4 : 400 |
Sunday 30 October 2011
Worksheet B
Worksheet B
Rearrange the nine planets in sequence with numbers.
( 1 ) Sun ( ) Saturn ( ) Mars ( ) Pluto
( ) Mercury ( ) Uranus ( ) Jupiter
( ) Venus ( ) Neptune ( ) Earth
Tuesday 25 October 2011
What Is The Solar System?
The Solar System is made up of all the planets that orbit our Sun. In addition to planets, the Solar System also consists of moons, comets, asteroids, minor planets, and dust and gas.
Everything in the Solar System orbits or revolves around the Sun. The Sun contains around 98% of all the material in the Solar System. The larger an object is, the more gravity it has. Because the Sun is so large, its powerful gravity attracts all the other objects in the Solar System towards it. At the same time, these objects, which are moving very rapidly, try to fly away from the Sun, outward into the emptiness of outer space. The result of the planets trying to fly away, at the same time that the Sun is trying to pull them inward is that they become trapped half-way in between. Balanced between flying towards the Sun, and escaping into space, they spend eternity orbiting around their parent star.
How Did The Solar System form?
This is an important question, and one that is difficult for scientists to understand. After all, the creation of our Solar System took place billions of years before there were any people around to witness it. Our own evolution is tied closely to the evolution of the Solar System. Thus, without understanding from where the Solar System came from, it is difficult to comprehend how mankind came to be.
Scientists believe that the Solar System evolved from a giant cloud of dust and gas. They believe that this dust and gas began to collapse under the weight of its own gravity. As it did so, the matter in this could begin moving in a giant circle, much like the water in a drain moves around the center of the drain in a circle.At the center of this spinning cloud, a small star begin to form. This star grew larger and larger, as it collected more of the dust and gas that were collapsing into it.
Further away from the star that was forming in the center were smaller clumps of dust and gas that were also collapsing. The star in the center eventually ignited forming our Sun, while the smaller clumps became the planets, minor planets, moons, comets, and asteroids.
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