ThePlanet Song

from

Blue’s Clues

Sun Hot star (not a planet)

Mercury Hot too!

Venus Brightest Planet

Earth Home to me and you . . .

Mars the red one

Jupiter most wide

Saturn Icy rings

Uranus spins on its side

Neptune really windy

Pluto Really small

Now we’ve named them all . . . umm . . .

Well, almost . . .

In the last few years scientists have been

arguing about whether to call some new planet-like objects actual planets in

our solar system. So we’ll see!

Relative sizes of planets.

The largest planet in our solar system is

A: JupiterB: Earth

C: UranusD: Saturn

Which of the following describes the sun?

A: a hot starB: a huge planetC: an asteroid

D: a small planet

Mercury is

A: hot because it is the planet closest to the sun.

B: cool because it moves quickly.C: the largest planet.

D: the smallest planet.

Venus is

A: hot because it is the planet closest to the sun.

B: the brightest planet as we see it in our sky.

C: the largest planet.D: the smallest planet.

Earth is

A: larger than Mercury but smaller than Jupiter.

B: larger than Jupiter but smaller than Mercury.

C: the largest planet.D: the smallest planet.

Mars appears red in our night sky.

A: TrueB: False

The planet that has icy rings orbiting it is

A: Earth.B: Jupiter.C: Uranus.D: Saturn.

Uranus is unique because

A: it is the hottest planet.B: it spins on its side.

C: it has rings of icy gas.D: it appears red in the sky.

Neptune is known for

A: being the largest planet.B: being windy.

C: being the slowest moving planet.

D: having an irregular orbit.

Pluto and Neptune alternate at being the farthest planet from the sun.

A: TrueB: False