CHAPTER 6 LESSON 4 GRAPHIC ORGANIZER



THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM - GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

You can use a compare-and-contrast table to show how things are alike and how they are different.

|CHARACTERISIC |MERCURY |VENUS |EARTH |MARS |

|Rotation Period |56 days 19 hours |243 days 16 hours |23 hours 56 minutes |24 hours 40 minutes |

|(Length of Day) | |Retrograde | | |

|Revolution Period |88 days |224 days 17 hours |365 days 6 hours |1 year 322 days =687 days |

|(Length of Year) | | | | |

| |57.9 million km |106.2 million km |149.6 million km |227.9 million km |

|Distance to the Sun | | | | |

|Diameter |4,679 km |12,104 km |12,756 km |6,794km |

|Temperature |-184 degrees C to 427 degrees C, 354 oF |465 degrees C, 900 oF |-89 degrees C to degrees C, 59 oF |-140 degrees C to 20 degrees C, -81 oF |

|(Average) | | | | |

| |Rocky, Cliffs, craters, and lava flows |Has volcanoes, Rocky, Vast plains, lava |Water |Low air pressure |

| | |flows, thousands of volcanoes, huge |Mountains, canyons, vast plains, |Rocky surface |

|Geographic Features | |mountains, and craters |volcanoes, oceans, rivers |Craters in the southern hemisphere, |

|(List three) | | | |volcanoes in the northern hemisphere, and |

| | | | |vast canons |

| |No atmosphere; hydrogen, helium, argon, |Atmosphere |Atmosphere |Thin atmosphere |

| |oxygen, sodium, and potassium have been |96% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1% sulfur|78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other gases. |Mainly 95% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, |

|Atmosphere |detected |dioxide and other gases |Layers are called the troposphere, |1.6% argon |

| | | |stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere| |

| | | | | |

| |Closest planet to the sun; smallest |A day on Venus is longer than its year; |Only a few hundred km larger than Venus; |Has seasons because axis is tilted 25o; |

| |planet; weak magnetic field; same density |dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide and |only planet that is known to support life;|mountains can build higher because gravity|

|Other Interesting |as Earth; deep in craters there may be |thick layer of clouds; runaway greenhouse |strong magnetic field; has Van Allen |is less; Olympus Mons rises 17 miles; |

|Information |water ice |effect; high atmospheric pressure |radiation belts; complex atmosphere |Mariner Valley may have been formed by |

| | | | |water |

| | | | | |

|Number of Moons /Rings |0 |0 |1 |2 |

THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM - GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

You can use a compare-and-contrast table to show how things are alike and how they are different.

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|Characteristic |Jupiter |Saturn |Uranus |Neptune |Pluto |

|Rotation Period |9 hours 54 minutes |10 hours 42 minutes |17 hours 12 minutes |16 hours 6 minutes |6 days 10 hours |

|(Length of Day) | | |Retrograde | |Retrograde |

|Revolution Period |11 years 313 days, |29 years 155 days |83 years 273 days |163 years 263 days |248 years 4 days |

|(Length of Year) |almost 12 years | | | | |

|Temperature (Average) |-145 degrees C, -162 oF |-180 degrees C, -218 oF |-210 degrees C, -323 oF |-220 degrees C, -330 oF |-240 degrees C to -218 degrees C|

| |778.4 million km |1,424.0 million km |2,827.0 million km |4,499.0 million km |5,943.0 million km |

|Distance to the Sun | | | | | |

|Diameter |142,984 km |120,536 km |51,118 km |49,528 km |2,390 km |

| |Has gases, Has cloud belts made of |Has gases, Mostly hydrogen and |Has gases, 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, |Atmosphere has belts of clouds, |Thin atmosphere of methane |

| |hydrogen and helium, and small amounts|helium. Has broad cloud belts |and 2% methane. |Hydrogen, helium, methane, and | |

| |of methane, ammonia, and water vapor | | |water. | |

|Atmosphere | | | | | |

| | | | | | |

| |Has giant storm on surface, Great red |Flattened at the poles. |-Tilted on its side |Very narrow rings |Made mainly of ice and rock |

| |Spot, a hurricane-like storm that has|- Has 7 major rings. Some |-The poles point directly to the sun |-Methane gives Neptune its blue | |

|Planet’s Physical |lasted for at least 300 years, Where |are made of thinner rings |- Blue-green color of |color. | |

|Features |comet Shoemaker, Levy hit, left spots |called ringlets. |Uranus is due to methane |- Great Dark Spot. | |

| |on the planet. | |in the upper atmosphere. |- Has at least 5 rings that are | |

| | | |- Has 11 rings, but are much |not very bright. | |

| | | |dimmer than Saturn’s | | |

|Number of Moons/rings |63 |60/7 |27 |13 |3 |

| |- Largest planet in our solar |- Second largest planet. |- Third largest planet. |- Fourth largest planet. | |

| |system. |- Less dense then water. |- Has about 27 moons. |- Light from Sun is 900 | |

|Other Interesting |- 1,000 Earth’s could fit |- Winds move at 550 meters |- Looks like it was knocked |times fainter than Earth. | |

|Information |inside. |per second near the |on its side. Axis of |- Has strongest winds of any | |

| |- Has more mass than all of |equator. |rotation is 98o to its orbit. |planet. Has many storms. | |

| |the planets combined. |- Has approximately 62 |- Summer at the north pole |- At least 13 moons. One | |

| |- Has about 63 moons. The |moons. |and winter at the south |moon, Triton, is larger than | |

| |four largest moons are | |pole lasts for 21 years. |Pluto and has similarities | |

| |Ganymede, Callisto, | | |to Earth. | |

| |Europa, & Io. | | | | |

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