Morning Starters: Spring 2 - Solar System
Clip Description
Like its fellow gas giant, Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball of hydrogen and helium. It is the furthest planet away from Earth that is visible to the human eye. Saturn’s immense gravitational force caused one of its many moons to shatter into trillions of pieces of rock and ice, forming the planet’s iconic rings.
Credit: BBC Two - The Planets
Word Challenge
An antonym is a word with the opposite meaning of another word.
Record the antonyms of the underlined words in the clip description.
e.g. furthest – nearest
Grammar Challenge
Rewrite the following sentence with a relative clause.
Saturn orbits the sun at a distance of around 1.4 billion kilometres.
e.g. Saturn, which is a gas giant, orbits the sun at a distance of around 1.4 billion kilometres.
Number Challenge
- Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun.
How many Earth days does it take for Saturn to complete one orbit around the Sun.
Note: Assume that one Earth year is equal to 365 days.
Critical Thinking
Why do you think the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses?