Space Science Warm Up

is closest to the sun and is a small,heavily cratered planet. This planet looks like our moon. Since Pluto’s reclassification from planet to dwarf planet, This planet is now the smallest planet in our solar system

• Pluto

• Mercury

• Saturn

• Earth

_______ is the spinning of Earth on its imaginary axis, which takes about 24 hours to complete and causes day and night to occur.

• seasons

• rotation

• revolution

• time

______is Earth's movement around the sun every 365 ¼ days.

• rotation

• revolution

• space

• Earth

______are created by the tilt of Earth on its axis throughout the year that have special climate conditions.

• seasons

• stars

• planets

• rotations

__________ is the eighth planet from the sun and appears blue through telescopes and is a gas giant.

• Venus

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Neptune

_________is the sixth planet from the sun .Early scientists thought this planet was the only planet with rings, but we now know that all four gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) have rings.

• Uranus

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Venus

_________is the seventh planet from the sun and  is a gas giant.

• Earth

• Uranus

• Mars

• Mercury

 _____is fifth planet from the sun. Has is the largest planet in the solar system and is considered a gas giant and  has no solid surface.

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Earth

• Neptune

is the third planet from the sun. This planet's atmosphere, the liquid water found on it, and its distance from the sun, among many other factors, make it a haven for life. One of the four terrestrial inner planets and is about 150 million kilometers from the sun.

• Earth

• Moon

• Jupiter

• Mars

_____is the fourth planet from the sun. The atmosphere is thin and there is a vast network of canyons and riverbeds on the red planet.

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Mercury

• Mars