Nature Example
The Eight Planets
The planets are all spherical bodies that orbit the Sun.
The order from the Sun is:
Mercury → Venus → Earth → Mars → Jupiter → Saturn → Uranus → Neptune
💡 Fun Facts
- A fun rhyme (mnemonic) to remember the order is: "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming".
- Jupiter is the biggest planet. It's so large that all the other seven planets could fit inside it at the same time!
- The first four planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are small, rocky planets. The last four (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) are known as 'gas giants' and are enormous.