Where Do You Live?
Where is the state you live in?
The state you live in is in the United States
What star can you see during the daytime?
You can see one star during the daytime and it is the Sun.
What do planets that are close to the sun get?
Planets that are close to the Sun get more heat and light than planets that are farther away.
How many planets lie beyond Mars.
Five planets in the solar system lie beyond the planet Mars.
What was the only way people could learn about the solar system.
Looking through a telescope was the only way people could learn about the solar system.
Where is the United States in?
The United States is on the planet called Earth.
What is the Sun much bigger than?
The Sun is much bigger than any of the nine planets in its solar system.
How many planets are closer to sun than the Earth is?
There two planets in the solar system that are closer to the sun than the earth is.
Which planet is the smallest of all nine planets.
Pluto is the smallest of all nine planets in the solar system.
What is a telescope?
A telescope is a huge glass that makes things that are far away look bigger.
What is Planet Earth a part of?
Planet Earth is part of the solar system.
The sun is a big ball of what?
The sun is a big ball of gas that spins around.
How hot can get on the two planets that are close to the sun.
It can get as hot as 896 degrees.
What happens to the planets that are very far from the sun?
What has telescopes helped people learn?
Telescopes helped people learn about the planets in the solar system and the stars in the sky.
What is the solar system made up of?
The solar system is made up of the Sun and the many things that move around the sun.
What shoots out from the sun?
Jets of hot gas shoot out from the sun.
What was the hottest earth has gotten.
The hottest it has been on Earth is 131 degrees.
The coldest it has ever been on Earth is -94 degrees.
What has helped people learn much more about the solar system?
Spaceships have helped people learn much more about the solar system.
How many planets are there in the solar system. Name one that the story talks about.
There are nine planets in the solar system and Earth is one of them.
What does the sun's hot gas do? What would happen without the Sun?
The sun's hot gas sends light and heat to all of the planets. Without the sun there would be no daylight on Earth.
What is the fourth planet from the sun. Does it ever get as hot as it does on Earth? Why or Why not?
The fourth planet from the Sun is Mars. Since it isn't as close to the Sun, it doesn't get as hot as it does on Earth.
Describe a warm day on Pluto.
A warm day on Pluto never gets warmer than -382 degrees. This is three times colder than the coldest day on Earth.
What do spaceships carry and what do they do?
Spaceships have carried people but most carry cameras that take pictures that teach us more about our solar system.