It is made up of the sun and nine planets namely; mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto(not more considered as a planet in our solar system).

There exist smaller heavenly bodies apart from planets called Asteroids. The planets can revolve round the sun on a part called an orbit.

• The earth is spherical in shape (geoid)
• It rotates along itself on an axis
• The upper end of the earth is called the North pole while the bottom is called the South pole