Science- The Solar System Set 1

Directions: Solve the following riddles. Look very close to the sun and you'll spot, a tiny, cratered planet that's very hot. I have no moons but I orbit the sun very fast. Can you guess my name at last? Which planet am I? ____________

Directions: Solve the following riddles. Named after the Roman god of the sea, look past Saturn and Uranus for me. I had a black spot that was a huge storm. Now it's all gone, but I'll still never be warm. Which planet am I? _____

Helen and Selena both are sisters. Their father brought a binocular for them one night they were watching the sky. Suddenly they started arguing. Helen said that stars are very large but Selena was saying they are small. As an elder brother how will you convince them?

Which of the following is true? A: Sun is the hottest planet in the solar system. B: Sun is revolving around the earth in an elliptical orbit.

The patterns made in the sky by stars are called _______.

Raghav knows everything about planet Earth. He know that earth is a part of Milky Way galaxy. But he was not aware about other things in the universe. One day Ravi told him that there were 7 more planets which orbit the sun. He was very excited to know certain things about these 7 planets also but he had no clue whom to ask for. As his elder brother how will you help him in knowing about these planets?

The comet catches fire due to _______.

______ is the collection of billions of stars, gases and dust.

Sun has its own______.

Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions given below. Asteroids are the minor planets and are also called planetoids. They could not combine to form planets. Comets have a long tail and are also called dirty snow ball. Where see some strike of light in the sky these are meteors which when enter into the ear atmosphere due to gravitational pull catch fire due to friction with air. Which of these is a strike of light in the sky?