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Mis forMercury (planet)

Mercury is a small, rocky planet. It is the closest planet to the sun. During the day it can reach 467 degrees Celsius on the surface of Mercury, but at night it can drop to -170 degrees Celsius. Mercury is 57,909,175km from the Sun. Its radius is 2439.7 km.

Planets

Mis forMars

Mars is a small rocky planet with ice caps on its poles. It has many volcanoes and is occasionally covered by dust storms. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Mars is 227,936,640km from the Sun. Its radius is 3,397km.

Planets

Nis forNeptune

Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It was discovered by mathematical predictions, not with a telescope. Neptune has 13 moons; the largest is called Triton. Neptune is 4,498,252,900km from the Sun. Its radius is 24,764km.

Planets

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Cis forChicken

Scientific name: gallus gallus domesticus

A chicken is a kind of bird that is kept as a source of food. Chickens lay eggs which we can eat, and we can also eat chickens. A female chicken is called a hen, male chickens are called roosters. Hens lay eggs, roosters crow when the sun rises.

Birds, Farm animals

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Ais forAsteroid

An asteroid is very similar to a comet - it is a large rock that orbits the sun. Comets have a tail, while asteroids do not. Smaller rocks, from the size of a grain of sand to a large bounder are called meteoroids. When they enter the Earth's atmosphere, they are called meteors. If they hit the ground, they are called meteorites. The photo is of a meteorite.

Astronomical

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Ais forAurora

Auroras, sometimes called the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis, are lights that are seen in the sky in areas close to the north pole. They occur when solar winds from the sun pass through the Earth's atmosphere. The shape of the lights follows the Earth's magnetic field.

Weather

Sis forStar (astronomy)

A star is like a big ball of fire that is very far away from us. They are thousands of times bigger than the Earth, and many stars are much, much bigger than our sun.

Astronomical

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Bis forBright

Something is bright if it appears to be giving off a lot of light. Something can be bright if it makes the light itself, like the sun, or if it reflects light from something else, like a mirror.

Adjectives

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Sis forShady

Shady means that something is fully or partially shielded from the sun.

Adjectives

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Sis forSunrise

Sunrise is the time of day when the sun just starts to peek over the horizon. The sky goes from dark to coloured with lots of shades of pink and orange and red before the sun gets higher and the sky goes to its usual blue. Sunrise is sometimes called dawn. The opposite of sunrise is sunset.

Times of the day