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Understanding Planets and Earth Facts

The document contains information about the planets in the solar system and facts about the Earth. It includes tasks to complete sentences about the number of planets and their properties, identify true and false statements about the Earth, and draw a diagram showing one side of the Earth in darkness and the other in daylight with the sun correctly placed.

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Understanding Planets and Earth Facts

The document contains information about the planets in the solar system and facts about the Earth. It includes tasks to complete sentences about the number of planets and their properties, identify true and false statements about the Earth, and draw a diagram showing one side of the Earth in darkness and the other in daylight with the sun correctly placed.

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Name: _______________________

The Planets

Task 1:
Complete the following sentences:

1. There are _________ planets in the solar system.

2. The Sun, Earth and remaining planets are roughly


_________________ in shape.

3. _______________ is the planet nearest to the Sun.

4. Earth is the ______________ planet from the Sun.

5. ___________ is the fourth planet from the Sun.

6. ______________ and ______________ are the coldest planets.

7. ________________ is the largest planet.

8. The sun is made up of ___________________________________.

9. The planets move around the Sun in a path called an


______________.

The Earth

Task 2:
Are the following statements true or false?
1. All daylight and hot weather comes from the Sun.
__________________

2. The Earth is always spinning around. ____________________

3. The Earth spins/rotates on its axis. __________________

4. It takes the Earth 22 hours to spin around once.


__________________

5. It is day-time when the Earth faces the Sun. __________________

6. It is night-time when the Earth faces the Sun. __________________

7. When it is night-time for us, it is day-time for people living on the


other side of the Earth. __________________

8. The Sun moves in the sky. __________________

Task 3:
For every false statement identified above, write a correct
version.

Task 4:
Draw a picture showing one side of the Earth in darkness
and the other side in daylight. Remember to place the Sun in
the correct place.

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