Venn Diagram for Inner and Outer Planets
Inner
Outer
•Called terrestrial
•Called gas giants
•Small and rocky
surfaces
•Pluto and inner
planets are rocky
•Have solid surfaces
•planets
•Close to the sun
•All orbit the sun
•No other planet has
oceans like Earth
•Some have
moons
•Short period of
revolution around sun
•All rotate on axis
•Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune are
huge and don’t have
solid surfaces.
•Both has at least
one planet that is
rocky
•Outer planets are
much farther apart than
the inner planets
•Venus is the only one
that has retrograde
rotation.
•Far away from sun
•Long period of
revolution around the
sun
Venn Diagram for Inner and Outer Planets