Inner Planets

What are the four inner planets?

• Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

What is the correct order of the inner planets starting from the closest to the sun?

• Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun

• True

• False

Venus has the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets

• True

• False

Earth is the only planet in our solar system that has the conditions necessary for living things

• True

• False

Earth is called the blue planet because its surface is

• mostly land

• mostly water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water exists in these 3 states only on Earth:

• Rain, sleet, snow

• Liquid, solid, gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

We rely on the correct climate due to our distance from the sun to survive on Earth

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the Red Planet?

• Earth

• Venus

• Mercury

• Mars

At one point, Mars had

• humans

• liquid water