COMPARING PLANETS
Choose 2 inner terrestrial planets and 2 outer gaseous planets and compare them to Earth. Write the similarities and differences between the planets.
Earth and Venus (terrestrial planets)
~ Difference - Earth is habitable while Venus is a planet with very harsh environment. Venus with a melting hot average temperature of 475 degrees Celsius and Earth with only an average temperature of 14 degrees Celsius.
~ Similarities - They are both rocky planets and with almost the same size. Venus with a diameter of 6,051.8 km and Earth with a diameter of 6,371 km.
Mars and Saturn (terrestrial and gaseous planet)
~ Difference - Mars is nearer from the Sun and much more smaller with only a diameter of 3,389.5 km, while Jupiter has 69,911 km diameter (22x the size of Mars).
~ Similarities - The only major similarity between them is that they're both named after a Roman God; Jupiter (Zeus in Greek) and Mars (Ares in Greek).
I was only able to provide 1 example per category. As it should be up to you to answer the remaining ones.
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