The Solar System

by Amy Brown Science

Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD

Subjects: science

Grades: 6,7,8

Description: This Boom Card deck contains 70 Boom Cards on "The Solar System." The following topics and concepts are covered in this deck: • What is the solar system? • The formation of the solar system inside a nebula. • Mass, gravity, pressure and temperature in the formation of a solar system. • The solar nebula: Planetesimals, steps in the formation of the solar system, comets, the birth of our sun. • Planetary Motion: Rotation, orbit, revolution, period of revolution. • Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. • Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. • The structure of our sun: Core, radiative zone, convection zone, photosphere, chromosphere, corona. • Energy production in the sun: Nuclear fusion. • Sunspots, solar flares and auroras. • The layers of the Earth: Crust, mantle, core. • Earth's Atmosphere: Early atmosphere, volcanic gases, composition, production of oxygen by photosynthesis. • Comets, asteroids, meteors, and meteorites.