Content Transparency #12

Use with Chapter 12, pp. 382–383

What is the solar

system?
Earth is a planet. It orbits around the Sun. Other
planets also orbit around the Sun. The planets and
their moons and other objects that orbit around the
Sun are called the solar system.

Sun
Jupiter Saturn
Uranus
Earth
Mercury
Mars Neptune

Venus
Pluto
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