Planets, Planets How Are You?

 

Inner Planets	Outer Planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars	Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Made of rocks	Made of gases
Has an atmosphere	Do not have a suitable atmosphere for living things to survive
Temperature is hotter	Temperature is colder

PLANETS	CHARACTERISTICS
MERCURY	Too close to the Sun.  The temperature is too hot to support life.
VENUS	A great amount of the heat  from the Sun is trapped in its atmosphere. This makes it hotter than Mercury.
EARTH	Has water, air and a suitable temperature to support life. The position is just right for it to receive enough heat to support life.
MARS	Almost all of its water is frozen.  Scientist have not found any life there.
JUPITER	It is so big that all the other planets could fit inside it.
SATURN	Has three wide rings.  They can be seen with a telescope.
URANUS	Is lying on its side as it goes round the Sun.
NEPTUNE	Is covered with a blue ocean of liquid methane.
PLUTO	Is very cold because it is very far from the Sun.