"Earth" Main Idea and Details

Heading: "Our Home Planet" What is the main idea?

• Earth is HUGE!

• Billions of people live on this planet.

• Earth supports life.

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What does the word globe mean?

• Circle

• Square

• Triangle

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Heading: "Earth and Its Neighbors" What is the main idea?

• Scientists call them rocky planets.

• The Sun lies at the center of the solar system.

• Earth shares its neighborhood in space with many other planets.

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What information is the illustration providing on page 246?

• Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter are rocky planets.

• Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter are gas planets.

• Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter are the Earth's neighbors.

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What does the illustration show on page 250?

• The rotation of the moon.

• The phases of the moon.

• How close the moon is to Earth.

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What is an orbit?

• The planets spin as they travel.

• The planets rotate as they travel.

• The planets follow its own path around the sun.

What is the main idea on page 252?

• The Moon's surface is mostly gray rocks, dirt, and craters.

• Craters are bowl-shaped pits in the surface.

• Craters are formed when rocks or ice from space slam into the Moon's surface.

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Click the main idea. Hint: Look on Page 253!

• The moon has almost no atmosphere.

• Nothing holds in any of the Sun's warmth either.

• The Moon has almost no atmosphere.

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Click the main idea. Hint: Look on Page 247!

• Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun.

• The Sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth.

• To travel that far on Earth, you would have ot circle the globe 3,733 times!

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Which planets are called the Rocky Planets?

• Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Earth.

• Mercury, Venus, Neptune, and Mars.

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Uranus.

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.