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Solar System Exploration Worksheet

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Solar System Exploration Worksheet

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📚 Part 1: Quick Facts & Multiple Choice

Short facts (easy to read):

The Sun is a star. It gives us light and heat. The Sun is very hot — about 5,500 °C on the surface.

There are eight planets that orbit (go around) the Sun. Planets travel in paths called orbits.

Some planets have moons. Space also has asteroids and comets.

This will help you when we make solar system art later this week.

1. What is the Sun?

A planet

A star

A moon

2. How many planets orbit the Sun?

Five

Eight

Ten

3. Which planet is closest to the Sun?

Mercury

Earth

Jupiter

4. Check all the things you can find in space:

Moons

Stars

Cars

Asteroids

✏️ Part 2: Short Answers, Matching & Drawing

5. Name two things the Sun gives us:
6. Match each planet to a short fact. Draw a line to match.
A. Mercury
B. Earth
C. Jupiter
D. Saturn
1. Has rings visible from space
2. Our home planet
3. Small and closest to the Sun
4. Largest planet
7. The planet we live on is _____________.
8. Drawing: Sketch the Sun and three planets. Add colour and label each planet.

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