Solar System

I am the fastest planet to orbit the sun.

• Venus

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Earth

I am the brightest and hottest planet.

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Venus

I am the only planet to have known life on it.

• Earth

• Mars

• Mercury

• Venus

I am red because of the iron oxide that covers me.

• Mars

• Mercury

• Venus

• Saturn

I get my color from methane gas.

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Earth

I am the third planet from the sun.

• Earth

• The Moon

• Venus

• Jupiter

I take the longest to orbit the Sun.

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Saturn

• Jupiter

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It is freezing cold in the shade and really hot in the light on my surface.

• Mars

• Mercury

• Earth

• Venus

I am the only planet to orbit on its side.

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Mars

• Mercury

What is the composition of most comets?

• rock, ice, salt carbon
• rock, ice magma, frozen gases
• ice, dust, rock, frozen gases
• ice, dust, rock, soil

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