Solar System

Match the following

• hottest planet

• Venus

• smallest planet

• Earth

• largest planet

• Neptune

• planet with most water

• Jupiter

• ice giant

• Mercury

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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The Sun is a ​ ​ (a)  

• star
• meteorite
• planet
• dwarf planet
• moon
• asteroid

Match the following

• Earth's "sister" planet

• Saturn

• largest rings

• Venus

• ice giant

• Jupiter

• gas giant

• Uranus

• fastest orbit

• Mercury

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the correct order of the planets in the Solar System, starting closest to the Sun?

• Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What do Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars all have in common?

• They are all very cold planets.

• They are considered terrestrial planets, that is rocky or have metals with hard surface.

• They are about the same size.

• They are considered gas giants

The four inner planets are rocky and small. Which description best fits the next four outer planets?

• They are also rocky and small.

• They are very large and has no moons

• They are small and made of ice.

• They are very large, made of gases with no solid surface

Which planet is home to the tallest mountain , has the largest dust storms in the solar system and is also known as the 'Red Planet' because of the presence of iron oxide in it's rock.

• Earth

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Mars

A force of attraction between any two objects is called _____________.

• static electricity 
• rotation
• gravity
• orbit

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Which four planets are inner planets?

• Saturn

• Venus

• Mars

• Earth

• Mercury

Which number on the diagram represents Earth?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4