SPACE AND TRAVELLING |
Unit 9
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Mercury - 88 days Venus - 224 days Earth - 365 days Mars - 687 days Pluto - 90 600 days |
Jupiter - 4 332 days Saturn - 10 760 days Uranus - 30 700 days Neptune - 60 200 days |
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Read the text and answer the questions below.
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We call the planets and the Sun the Solar System. Our Solar System is made up of nine planets. They are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. All of the planets are around the Sun. The Sun isn’t a planet. It is a star.
The first planet, next to the Sun, is Mercury. Venus is the second planet from the Sun and it twinkles as « a morning star». The Earth is the third planet.
We live on the planet Earth. Its age is 4.5 billion years. It is between Venus and Mars. Jupiter is the biggest planet. Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are all bigger than the Earth, but Venus, Mars (the red planet), Mercury and Pluto are smaller planets than the Earth. On the Earth there is air and water for people, animals and plants.
Saturn is special for its beautiful rings. The other planets in our Solar System don’t have air and water. But Neptune has strong winds. Pluto is one of the small planets. At night you can see a lot of stars in the sky. Stars are large balls in outer space that give light. It takes a long time for light to come from stars to the Earth.
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Think and match.
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