What are the similarities and differences of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?

What are the similarities and differences of Mercury, Venus,

Earth, and Mars?

Carlos Antonio Guanzon7-Amorsolo

What will we study?

I. Order of the planetsII. Terrestrial Planets

I. MercuryII. VenusIII. EarthIV. Mars

III. SimilaritiesIV. Differences

Order of Planets

www.planetsforkids.org

Terrestrial Planets

MercuryVenusEarthMars

Picgifs.comen.wikipedia.org

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– compact, metalAnd rocky surface,

• Dense inner cores

• Relatively small in size• Do not have planetary

rings• Few or no Moons

Universetoday.com

Differences

• Atmosphere • Axial Tilt

en.wikipedia.org

Sources for imageshttp://nineplanets.org/mercury.htmlwww.planetsforkids.comhttp://www.universetoday.com/15502/planets-in-the-solar-system/http://www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net/venus.htmlhttp://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 Referenceshttp://missionscience.nasa.gov/nasascience/what_is_a_planet.htmlhttp://www.space.com/25986-planet-definition.htmlhttp://nineplanets.org/mercury.htmlhttp://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venushttp://nineplanets.org/earth.htmlSunearthday.nasa.gov/2012/transit/comparison.phpwww2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf1-2.phphttp://www.universetoday.com/50287/terrestrial-planets/

http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.htmlhttp://nineplanets.org/venus.htmlhttp://nineplanets.org/mars.htmlhttp://nineplanets.org/earth.htmlhttp://universetoday.comhttp://livescience.com