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Get to Know Our Solar System
Name__________________

 

Directions: Use the underlined internet site to answer the question or questions below each internet address.
 
1.   http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/space/sshome.html
Draw a picture of the solar system and label each planet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.   http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/space/sshome.html

The planets travel in oval shaped paths around the sun called ____________________.

One complete path around the sun is called an _______________________.

Each planet rotates or spins on its __________________________.

 

3.  http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html

The inner solar system contains ______________, ______________, _______________,

__________________, and _____________________.

The planets of the outer solar system are ___________________, __________________,

__________________, ____________________, and ________________________.

 

4.  http://www.nineplanets.org/mercury.html  

Mercury is the closest planet to the __________________ and the __________________largest planet.

 

5.  http://www.nineplanets.org/venus.html  

Venus is the _______________ planet from the sun. It is the ______________________ planet known to the ancients.

 

6.  http://www.nineplanets.org/earth.html 

___________________ is the third planet from the sun and the fifth largest planet. It is the only planet that supports life.

 

7.   http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html

The moon is the only natural satellite of the _____________________. How often does the moon orbit around the earth? __________________________

 

8. http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html

Mars is the ______________________ planet from the sun and the _______________largest planet.

 

9.  http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html 

_________________________ is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest planet.

 

10.  http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html

Saturn is the _________________ planet from the sun and the second largest planet.

 

11.  http://www.nineplanets.org/uranus.html 

Uranus is the __________________ planet from the sun and the _______________largest planet.

 

12.  http://www.nineplanets.org/neptune.html 

_____________________ is the eighth planet from the sun and the fourth largest planet.

 

13 http://www.nineplanets.org/pluto.html 

Pluto is the _________________ planet from the sun (usually) and it is the ___________planet.

 

14. http://www.nineplanets.org/smallbodies.html

There are thousands of known ___________________ and ______________________ in the solar system.

Most asteroids orbit between ____________________ and _______________________.

Very small rocks orbiting the sun are sometimes called __________________________.

The space between the planets is not empty at all. It contains a great deal of __________and _________________.

 


Revised: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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