Thursday, 12 March 2020

Solar System / Inner planets(2019-2020)

Vocabulary:  Gravity, (natural)satellites - new grade 8 vocabulary.
terrestrial, tectonics, volcanism, erosion, core, mantle - old grade7 vocabulary.
weight, mass - grade 8 vocabulary that will be studied in more detail later this year. 

We begin this topic with 3 points that make a planet a planet:

The rocky or terrestrial planets have rocky crusts that experience processes learned in grade 7:  erosion, tectonics & volcanism.


They inhabit the Inner Solar System.

They are - in order from the Sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars.

See the powerpoint for further details.



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