Solar System Scale

What is the correct order of the planets in the Solar System, starting closest to the Sun?

• Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mercury, Mars, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn

What is the largest planet in the solar system?

• Earth
• Jupiter
• Mars
• Saturn

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How many earths can fit across the sun?

• 1,026
• 1,107
• 109
• 30

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You can fit all of the planets in the solar system between the Earth and Moon?

• true
• false

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What is wrong with the picture of the solar system.

• The planets should have been much FARTHER apart.

• The planets are NOT colorful. They are white.

• We DON’T know exactly what the planets look like

• Planets are oval and NOT round.

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What is wrong with the picture if the Sun was the size of a golf ball

• The planets should have been much CLOSER

• The first four planets should be hard to see.

• We DON’T know exactly what the planets look like

• Planets are the same size.

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The FARTHER away from the Sun …

• the CLOSER together the planets.

• the FARTHER apart the planets.

• SOME planets are close, OTHERS are farther apart.

• NONE of the above.

The Solar System is …

• MOSTLY planets.
• MOSTLY planets and comets.
• MOSTLY rocky worlds.
• MOSTLY empty space.

Order the planets from the LARGEST to SMALLEST diameter

• Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Mars
• Neptune, Saturn, Mercury, Mars
• Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Mercury
• Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Saturn

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What is Earth distance from the Sun?

• 107 million miles
• 93 miles
• 10 au
• 93 million miles

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