Biodiversity in Kilcoskan

Water Filters

We can survive in the wild by filtering contaminated water!!!

Water Filters

Charcoal is great for filtering water!

Planets Mnemonic

Planets Mnemonic

This week in school we were learning all about our solar system The Milky Way.We also learned an easy way to remember our planets here it is.                                                                                                                               

My                                                        Mercury

very                                                              Venus                        

easy                                                              Earth

method                                                  Mars

always                                                          Asteroid Belt

just                                                        Jupiter

speeds                                                          Saturn

up                                                          Uranus

naming                                                  Neptune

planets                                                         Pluto

WE HOPE THIS MNEMONIC  HELPS YOU LEARN  ABOUT  THE PLANETS IN ORDER FROM THE SUN.                                            BY    JOSIE C. KIERAN R. .DAMIAN M.

Mars

Mars. captured Mars

Mars  is also  called the red planet.

Scentist  discovered frozen  water on mars. Mars looks a lot like our planet. It is the 4^th planet in our solar system.Mars is a very cold

Planet.

The middle looks like the sun. IT HAS 2 MOONS NB Deimos are not round like our moon. They are much smaller and have irregular shapes. Phobos is 13.8 miles (22.2 km) across and Deimos is only 7.8 miles (12.6 km) across. Both moons are covered wanith craters and are made of rock and iron. It is possible that Deimos were two asteroids which were by the gravity of mars.

BY  LEAH O’NEILL ,JAMES LALESS  AND  MICHAEL  O’HERLIH!!!!!!!!

Earth

Earth 

Earth is the planet we live on, we know alot about it but some things we don’t. Here are some facts you might or might not know.  

Facts :

Nickname : The Blue Planet

Distance : 93 Million Miles

Order From Sun : 3rd Planet

Moons : 1

Diameter : 7,926

Temperature : 57 F Highest 136 F Lowest 128 F

% : 70 % Water 30 % Land

Age : 4.65 Billion years old

One day on Neptune is how many days on Earth : Neptune’s day is 8 hours less than on Earth!

By : Adam, Amy and Niamh.

Mercury

Mercury is a small planet which orbits closer to the sun than any other planet in our solar system. As well as being very hot, it features a barren, crater covered surface which looks similar to Earth's moon.

The surface of Mercury is very similar to our moon. It has a very barren, rocky surface covered with many craters

Being so close to the Sun, the daytime temperature on Mercury is scorching  reaching over 400 Degrees Celsius.

At night however, without an atmosphere to hold the heat in, the temperatures plummet, dropping to 180 Degrees Celsius.

Mercury has a very low surface gravity.

There is also no water on the surface of Mercury, it is possible however that there could be water underneath the surface.

Likewise, there is no air on the surface but it could be trapped underneath.

Did you know mercury has no moons.

By : Lucy, Tyler and Joseph