What is Earth? Commonlit reading quiz for ESOL students

"Earth is our home planet." In this sentence the word Earth is a ________________.

• verb

• adjective

• preposition

• noun

Only two planets are closer to the sun than Earth. They are_______________.

• Jupiter and Pluto

• Mercury and Venus

• Earth is the closet planet to the sun.

• Saturn and Venus

The Earth's Equator is _____________.

• found in England

• everything is equal

• a really hard Geometry theorem

• an imaginary circle that divides the Earth in half.

"The Earth looks like a marble." Which word is the subject of the sentence?

• marble

• looks

• Earth

• like

What does the author mean when he states, "The Earth is a Goldilocks planet."

• The atmosphere is too hot.

• The atmosphere is too cold.

• Everything is wrong on Earth.

• Earth is just right to support life.

An shape of an ellipse looks like :

• a football (American football)

• a basketball

• a box

• a curvy road

The white swirls that you can see from space are:

• water

• clouds and ice

• land

• dessert plains

"At the equator the Earth spins 1,000 miles per hour." In this sentence "At the Equator" is a _____________.

• noun phrase

• prepositional phrase

• verb phrase

• adjective phrase

"The temperature at the Earth's inner core is 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit." The verb in this sentence is ____________

• is

• 12,000

• temperature

• inner core

In the sentence “Information helps them (scientists) predict how Earth might change in the future. The word predicts means:

• Who cares about the future?

• An educated guess of what happened in the past.

• Don't be silly. No one can predict the future.

• An educated guess of what might happen in the future.