Which planet is considered a gas giant?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Mars

Which planet is known as the red planet?

• Saturn

• Mars

• Earth

• Neptune

Which planet is closest to the sun?

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Mercury

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Which planet has a permanent blanket of clouds that trap heat?

• Uranus

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Venus

Which planet is considered ideal for life due to its atmosphere, liquid water, and distance from the sun?

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Mars

• Mercury

Terrestrial Planets

Drag the description to the correct planet.

Groups:

(a) Mercury

,

(b) Venus

,

(c) Earth

,

(d) Mars

• very high surface temperatures

• roughly half the size of Earth

• looks like our moon

• has canyons and riverbeds

• distance from sun make it ideal for life

• smallest

• heavily cratered

• similar to earth in size

• called the "red-planet?

• permanent blanked of clouds

• oxygen-rich atmosphere

There are several "sentences or phrases" to help you remember the order of the planets from the sun outward.

(if you cannot remember, you may ask a neighbor)

Write that sentence 10 times below to help make it a permanent memory.

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How many times larger than Earth is Jupiter?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

There is a saying we have learned to remember the order of the planets from largest to smallest.

(ask Eropeya is you don't remember it)

Type that saying 10 times below to help make it a permanent memory

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which word could be a synonym for "terrestrial?"

• rocky

• gaseous

• small

• large