Please answer the questions below based on the information you have read from this lesson:
1. Which inner planet is nearest to the sun?
2. Which planet is the third farthest from the sun?
3. Which planet is next to Mercury?
4. What is the distance from Mars to the sun?
5. Which is the biggest planet?
6. What is common to all the outer planets?
7. Why is Neptune referred to as the twin planet of Uranus?
8. Why is life not possible on other planets?
9. Why does the sun never rise nor set in Uranus?
10. Why is it not possible to see Neptune without using a telescope?
Choose the phrase inside the box that appropriately describes the four inner planets:
red planet
nearest planet to the sun
revolves 365 1/4 days
has a thin atmosphere
has a perfect sphere shape
has 1 moon
only planet to sustain life
has 96% carbon dioxide
has 2 moons
has living and non-living things
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Read each statement below. Choose the correct word in parenthesis to make a factual statement about planets. Write the answers on your answer sheets.
1. The nearer a planet to the sun, (the hotter, the colder) it is.
2. Jupiter completes its revolution after (4380, 4381) days.
3. Saturn and Jupiter have almost (different, similar) rotation.
4. The nearer a planet to the sun, the (faster, slower) it revolves.
5. Neptune rotates (faster, slower) than Earth.