Vocabulary
The sun and all the planets, satellites, and comets that circle around it.
What is the solar system?
Can you summarize in one sentence the 2 main features of the solar system?
What is The solar system is mainly made up of the sun and 8 planets.
*What type of planet is Venus (Inner or Outer)?
What is inner?
Orbit outside the asteroid belt.
What are outer planets
*Which planet has evidence that water is or was once present?
What is Mars?
*The atmosphere on Mars is much thinner than Earth's atmosphere? True or False?
What is True?
Are made mainly of rocky material.
What is terrestrial planets
What is the genre of The Planets of Our Solar System?
What is informational non-fiction?
*Which planet has 31 moons with the largest moon, Titan, being larger than Mercury?
What is Saturn?
*What is the gaseous planet with thin, dark rings and has blue-green color from methane?
What is an Uranus?
Are those with orbits between the Sun and asteroid belt.
What are inner planets?
Why would an author write a book titled, The Planets in Our Solar System?
What is to teach the reader about the solar system. (inform)
* What is Jupiter's most notable high pressure gas storm?
What is The Great Red Spot?
*Which planet has a tilted axis of rotation moving around the Sun like a rolling ball?
What is Uranus?
They are made mainly of ice and gas.
What are gaseous planets?
*What planet has no true atmosphere?
What is Mercury?