WorksheetsOur Solar System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What characteristics are used to classify stars? Check all that apply.
Size
Color
Distance from the sun
Brightness
What if you lived on Mars! How does its orbit around the sun make things different for you?
It has a smaller orbit, so a shorter year.
It has a longer orbit, so a longer year.
This is the color of the stars by order from hottest to coolest.
Blue, white, yellow, red
Blue, red, yellow, white
Red, yellow, white, blue
The outer planets are ________ than inner planets.
Colder
Hotter
These are outer planets: (Check all that apply)
Jupiter
Uranus
Mercury
Neptune
This is the farthest planet from the sun.
Mercury
Saturn
Uranus
The sun is in the _______ of our solar system
Outside
Center
The largest planet in the solar system is:
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Outer planets are similar because (Check all that apply)
All have rings.
All are made up of different gases.
All are rocky
They all have soft surfaces.
The path a planet takes as it goes around the sun is:
Orbit
Axis
Distance
Planets stay in their orbits because:
The sun is bigger than the planets.
The sun has strong gravity
the sun is the only star in the solar system.
The solar system is made up of:
The sun, the eight planets, their moons, and orbits.
The sun, the planets, and their moons
The sun, the eight planets, and their moons, asteroids, meteors and comets.
The hottest planet is:
Venus
Mercury
Mars
The planet that is made up of mostly liquid water is:
Jupiter
Mars
Earth
Large objects that are made of gas or rocks are called
Asteroids
Stars
Comets
Planets
