Journey through the solar system

It is the third planet out from the Sun, about 150 million km away from it.

• Earth

• Mars

• Pluto

• Jupiter

These four planets haven’t got a solid surface. They are made up of gases and liquids.

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Mars

What planet is more than nine times the size of Earth but the planet is so light that it could float on an ocean of water.

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The surface of the Sun, which is made from churning, hot gases.

• Photosphere

• Supernova

• Sunspot

• Chromosphere

A gigantic ring of clouds of gas emitted at speed that form around the outside of a supernova.

• Neutron star

• Nebula

• Spiral galaxy

• Planetary Nebula

A meteor so large that it doesn’t burn up in Earth’s atmosphere but instead crashes into the Earth’s surface.

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

• Meteor

• White dwarf

A planet outside the Solar system, not circling the Sun but another star

• Extrasolar planet

• Galaxy

• Jupiter

• Mars

This is also known as the ‘Plough’ in Europe, and the ‘Big Dipper’ in North America, because it is shaped like a soup ladle.

• Great bear

• Orion

• Ares

• Gemini

1.28 seconds it take light to travel from the Moon to Earth

• True - 1.28 seconds

• False - 499 seconds

It takes light about 60 seconds to reach us from the Sun.

• False - takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

• True - It takes light about 60 seconds to reach us from the Sun.