Inner and Outter Planets

What is the closest planet to the Sun?

• Mercury
• Mars
• Venus
• Earth 

What are the inner planets composed of?

• gases and ice
• rock and ice
• gases and rock
• rock

What are the Inner Planets?

• Mercury, Mars, Earth, and Venus
• Earth, the Moon, Mars
• Neptune, Pluto, Earth
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What do all the items in this list have in common?
1)has a day longer than its year
2)is the hottest planet
3)rotates counter clockwise (east to west)

• This list describes Earth.
• This list describes Mercury.
• This list describes Mars.
• This list describes Venus.

If we needed to move to another planet right now, which planet could we move to?

• Mars
• Venus
• Mercury
• There is no other planet that we know of that we could survive on.

The sun and all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it make up the

• universe
• galaxy
• solar system
• neighborhood

The inner planets are also called...

• terrestrial planets
• gas giants

Which inner planet is the hottest?

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars

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Earth is the ___________ planet from the Sun.

• First
• Second
• Third
• Fourth

Mars has a red surface because of what mineral?

• iron
• lead
• plastic
• gold