fun with our solar system!

which planet looks like a blue white and brown marble?

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Saturn

The Sun is

• a Comet

• a Star

• a Liquid lava

• a Planet

Which planet has a reddish-orange rocky surface?

• Mars

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Venus

What is a "rotation"?

• The orbit of a planet as it revolves around the Sun.

• When the Sun moves around a planet, turning it into day or night.

• When a planet turns on its axis, facing the sun part of the time and away from the sun part of the time.

• When a planet orbits around the sun.

Which planet is the only planet that spins on its side as it orbits the sun?

• Saturn

• Earth

• Neptune

• Uranus

What do all the outer planets have in common?

• They all can support life

• They all have surfaces that are not solid

• They all have surfaces that have liquid water

• The all have surfaces that are solid

What are three features that make life on Earth possible?

• an atmosphere, mild temperatures, and liquid water

• Warm clouds, a lot of heat, and liquid water

• Extreme temperatures, wind, an atmosphere

• gravity, hot temperatures, liquid water

A small chunk of rock that orbits the Sun is called

• a nucleus

• a planet

• a solar system

• an asteroid

Which statement is NOT true about Pluto?

• It has been reclassified to be called a dwarf planet

• It is the 9th Planet

• They all have surfaces that have liquid water

  It sometimes is closer to the sun than Neptune is.

• Its orbit is at an angle to the orbits of the 8 planets

Why does the sun seem very big and bright while other stars look like pinpoints of light?

• Because the Sun is made of plasma and is very powerful

• Because the other stars are a lot smaller

• Because the sun is a lot closer to the Earth

• Because the center of the sun in millions of degrees hot.