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Activity 7.1

Identify the planets with the help of the given description.

I am a ringed planet. I am known as the morning I am the largest
and evening star. planet.

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I am known as I am the only known I am very close to the sun.
the red planet.
planet with life.
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S un

Sun has been named sol by the scientists and this is why the
system of planets is called the solar system. All planets revolve Do You Know?
around the sun. It is a giant star and a huge ball of burning Pluto is known as a
‘dwarf’ planet. Earlier,
gases that provides energy for life
Corona on earth. There are trillions of it was considered as the
ninth planet.
other stars in the universe
just like the sun with their

own planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

In size and mass, it is 109 times bigger and about,
30,000 times the earth respectively. The major
constituents of the sun are hydrogen and helium
gases. The sun has thin outer layer called corona

and its central part is called core.
Core
Layers of Sun
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