3. The Space Race
A speech made by Eddie
(Not telling you my sir name!!!!)
<Lasts for approximately 5 minutes>
4. Life too boring for you? Is homework
taking your mind too hard? Wanted the
adventure of a lifetime? Then you’ve
come to the right place. It’s black,
it’s big– that’s right, we’re going to
outer space. So who’s with me? For the
ones who are, first stop, the moon!
(oh, and did I mention that there was
DEFINITLY no cow that jumped over the
moon? Honest.). Full moon! It’s a full
moon! Actually, it always stays like
that. It just looks like it has changed
shape. The moon has far too many
craters to count (but not too many to
fit on the moon. Tee hee!)
5. The moon is fifty times smaller than
Earth! People have made observatories
so they can check out the moon. Ever
wondered why there are high tides and
low ones?
It’s the moon. That big white dot in the
sky at night? The moon. OK, next stop,
Uranus! (that green one, remember?)
It’s a gas giant, which means you can’t
really land on it. Uranus spins on it’s
side, so it’s rings go around it
vertically.
6. The first layer of gas on Uranus is gas
and crystals, and under it is gas
NEARLY turned into liquid. Under THAT
is frozen liquid. (I thought it was a
GAS giant, not a FROST giant). The
cause of this “side-ways thingy” is
probably an asteroid hitting Uranus and
tipping it over to one side! The core
of Uranus (instead of being made of
Iron like Earth’s core) is made of
solid rock and is about the size of
Earth! Pretty big, huh.
7. Gee, it is getting cold here. Let’s
go somewhere hot…….. REALLY HOT!
Yup, it’s the sun. MILLIONS of
degrees hot (probably), and heart
of the solar system. Oh, look!
There’s a sign. It says………………
“CAUTION; NEVER LOOK STRAIGHT AT
THE SUN, EVEN THROUGH DARK
GLASSES.” hmmm… nice advice, sign!
Never EVER look straight at the
sun, even through sunglasses. It
may cause temporary blindness.
8. Here’s a story…
A man was looking at the sun. “I’M
BLINDED!!!” he screamed as he
looked away. But when he
recovered, he saw BRAINS ON
FLOWERS!!!!! “brains on flowers!”
he gasped; so he wrote a story
about it.
Hmmmmm………… mysterious. Anyway, I
don’t think it’s even a real
story.
9. Right. It’s time to go home. And
we’re not stop’n yet. We’re going
to find out Mother Earths dark
sides. No, not talking about
zombies and demons. It’s way
worse. I’m talking about VOLCANOES
AND EARTHQUAKES. First, meer
mountains. Want a shrinking fact?
All kinds of weather (yes, maybe
thunder storms) in all kinds of
places have shredded tops of
mountains and made them small!
10. Now, continuing with evil Earth.
Actually, not talking evil anymore!
Earth speeds around the sun at 66,630
miles an hour! That's faster than a
speeding bullet!!! 30 times faster, to
be exact. Earth is a few million
kilometres away from the sun; that
means it is the right distance away
from the sun for there to be life on
Earth. If it were too close, water
would turn into gas. And we need water
to survive.
If it were too far away, water would turn
into ice.
11. Thank the sun for our heat; because
if we didn’t have heat from the
sun, Earth would be a freezing
-270 degrees Celsius! Right, Next
stop Venus! (I don’t like it very
much). Venus is the hottest planet
in the solar system, even though
it isn't closest to the sun. At a
sizzling 464 degrees C, one step
into Venus and your leg is burnt
off! It is 459 degrees C hotter
than Earth, which it’s average
surface temp is 15 degrees C.
12. Venus is the closest planet to
Earth; but even though it’s close,
we can’t see it’s surface. Who's
the culprit? Venus’s clouds. Not
like our clouds, they are very,
VERY thick, and are POISONUS! In
the 1990’s, a space probe called
‘Magellan’ orbited Venus. GIGANTIC
Volcanoes were discovered that
were unidentical to any volcano in
the solar system. It’s very hot,
so I don’t think it’s a good place
for anyone to visit!
13. VGHSZHHHH! Oh! You’re still here! I
was imagining I was being sucked
into a black hole; A black hole
forms when a star stops burning.
It gets smaller as it cools down.
If a LARGE star gets shrunk, it’s
gravity becomes so strong that it
sucks In light. That’s why black
holes look black.
14. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING!
This was made by a kid, y’know!
Software used to make this: Microsoft
PowerPoint (thanks, Microsoft!)
15. I’d like to thank
www.henry’shouse.co.nz for giving
me the facts I needed for this
slideshow.
16. GLOSSERY
Solar system (SOH-la-sist-im)
The ring of planets which Earth circles
in.
Orbit (AWR-bit)
To go around a star, planet or moon.
Moon (MOON)
The moon that orbits Earth.
