Name:_____________Date:_______ Work

Sheet # 1

Read: You are the captain of the USS Copernicus. Your job is to safely take
your new crew on a voyage through the Solar System. Before you can leave
you must prepare yourself by gathering as much information as possible
about the Solar System. Here is a list of questions to help you prepare for
your voyage.

Hint: Visit http://www.KidsAstronomy.com/solar_index.htm to find the answers.

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1. If you leave the Earth traveling towards the Sun  Pluto  Neptune
which planet will you come to first?
  Mercury
Venus

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2. Which planet has the strongest gravity?   Earth
Jupiter
 Mars
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Saturn

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3. Which planet does not have rings?   Jupiter
Uranus
 Saturn
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Mercury

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4. Which of the following planets has no moons?   Venus
Earth
 Mars  Saturn
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5. In your own words, what does Pluto mean?
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6. Would you want to land your ship on Jupiter's moon Io? Why, or why not?
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7. What part of the Solar System do you think is most interesting? Why?
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Match: Draw a line connecting each of the following features with its
planet. Some features might belong to more than one planet.
PROJECT IDEA - In groups, allow each group to make a poster on ONE of the
planets in our Solar system. The poster will include interesting facts about the
planet such as its composition, temperature, atmosphere, size and distance to the
Sun.

Bank On It! Worksheet

Space
Work Bank
will Space to because Station due visiting. Center. Shuttle's
outside

Until now, when astronauts on the International Space Station

needed to go ____________ on a spacewalk, they had to wait
until the ____________ Shuttle was ____________ That's
____________ the ____________ doesn't have an airlock that
works with U.S. spacesuits. Astronauts have to wait for the
Shuttle to dock with the Station, then use the ____________
airlock. But that will all change with STS-104, the latest mission
of Space Shuttle Atlantis, ____________ ____________ launch
tomorrow from NASA's Kennedy Space ____________ Using
the Station's new robotic Canadarm2, the crew ____________
install a new airlock on the Station's Unity module.

Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Space
A robotic NASA explorer is poised to set sail Monday, July 30 on a mission to
catch the solar wind and then return to Earth with a representative sampling
of the primordial stuff that seeded the solar system.

Some 4.6 billion years after an interstellar cloud of gas, dust and ice
collapsed and spawned the Sun and its attendant planets, the spacecraft will
blast off in late July for a distant space harbor where conditions remain much
the same as those at hand when the solar system formed.

Pristine material tossed off the turbulent sun then will be snatched up before
the spacecraft swings back by Earth, flinging a sample return capsule toward
a daring helicopter recovery over the Utah desert in September 2004.

The scientific prize: A cache of interplanetary matter that could enable 21st
century researchers to decipher the elemental and isotopic make-up of the
original solar nebula.
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1. What is solar wind?
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2. How long ago do scientist feel
the "BIG BANG" took place? ______________________________
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3. Why is it important to know how ______________________________

the solar system was formed? ___

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4. Why is material just falling off of ______________________________

the Sun? ___

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Space Vocabulary Quiz

Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.
 the point in the sky that is directly over the head of the
1. black hole
observer.

a heavenly body that revolves around a planet or other

2. constellation
larger body; moon.

a large, nonluminous celestial body, esp. one of the nine

3. asteroid in the solar system, that revolves around a star and often
has one or more satellites.

the curved path in which a planet, satellite, or spacecraft

4. zenith
revolves about another body.

a system of billions of stars and other matter held

5. planet relatively close to each other by gravity and separated
from other such systems by vast distances.

at a particular observation point, the blocking of light

from one celestial body by another, such as the eclipse
6. orbit of the sun by the interposition of the moon, or the eclipse
of the moon by the earth's coming between the sun and
moon.

a small mass, speck, or remnant of matter traveling

through space or falling to earth, or the fiery streak in the
7. moon
sky made by the friction of its passage through the
earth's atmosphere; meteorite or meteoroid.

8. meteor any planet's natural satellite.

any of eighty-eight groupings or patterns of stars named

9. satellite after the animals, objects, or mythological characters
they are thought to resemble.

the force by which a planet or other such body tends to

10. eclipse
draw objects toward its center.

11. comet a hypothetical region or body in space, possibly the

remnants of a collapsed star, with such a strong
 gravitational pull that neither light nor matter can escape.

a heavenly body orbiting the sun, and having a nucleus

12. meteorite surrounded by a nebulous sheath that may form an
elongated tail when the body comes close to the sun.

any of thousands of celestial bodies with diameters

between one and five hundred miles that revolve around
13. galaxy
the sun in orbits located mostly between those of Jupiter
and Mars; planetoid.

a mass of stone or metal falling to earth from outer

14. gravity
space; meteoroid.

Name
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Space Vocabulary List & Definitions

at a particular observation point, the blocking of light from

eclipse one celestial body by another, such as the eclipse of the sun
by the interposition of the moon, or the eclipse of the moon
by the earth's coming between the sun and moon.

a system of billions of stars and other matter held relatively

galaxy close to each other by gravity and separated from other such
systems by vast distances.

gravity the force by which a planet or other such body tends to draw
objects toward its center.

any of thousands of celestial bodies with diameters between

asteroid one and five hundred miles that revolve around the sun in
orbits located mostly between those of Jupiter and Mars;
planetoid.
 a small mass, speck, or remnant of matter traveling through

meteor space or falling to earth, or the fiery streak in the sky made
by the friction of its passage through the earth's atmosphere;
meteorite or meteoroid.

meteorite a mass of stone or metal falling to earth from outer space;

meteoroid.

moon any planet's natural satellite.

orbit the curved path in which a planet, satellite, or spacecraft

revolves about another body.

a large, nonluminous celestial body, esp. one of the nine in

planet the solar system, that revolves around a star and often has
one or more satellites.

satellite a heavenly body that revolves around a planet or other larger

body; moon.

a hypothetical region or body in space, possibly the

black hole remnants of a collapsed star, with such a strong gravitational
pull that neither light nor matter can escape.

zenith the point in the sky that is directly over the head of the
observer.

a heavenly body orbiting the sun, and having a nucleus

comet surrounded by a nebulous sheath that may form an
elongated tail when the body comes close to the sun.

any of eighty-eight groupings or patterns of stars named

constellation after the animals, objects, or mythological characters they
are thought to resemble.

Name _______________ Date _____________

Space Word Chop Worksheet

Directions: The table below contains words that have been chopped in half. Find the pieces that fit
together and write them in the answer area below.
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or ipse mete black

orite eor zen gra

vity met pla ith

axy mo ecl hole

net aste sate met

roid llite on bit

Answers:

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Name _______________ Date _____________

Space Word Search Worksheet

Directions: All words are positioned left to right, right to left, and diagonally.

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RLPXVBVSCGI OLPYQRFETUXT
KQDLBQGLRGKYUOHQKYSOLSU
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KMOYTNVTMOCUBMOZKLI J RSZ
VYPKAI ERUQALWCEAGALAXYG
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XPSYANPDPCGDI NEQYGELXXY
GXCKI YLDKYTTMRTFNEBHFEA
EZUKI J D WEHELPI ZXOWLETR
DXRQPVHI MCTDXLLYRRWZKI D
HNUHDOJOOEKQZELSJ WGSZRD
WQSWLECHORPGGVELMJ UNKOL
S I EEI NI RGGENI TTJ J ELOEES
DXWKRWPMTKJTYYAWCTWOVTC
EORBI TJRYSBSSDSLQHSMQEB
WPZWLVVXKJCCOAVHZCHUGMB
AOONAXLRQHFQFLEAKFVRZOP

BLACK HOLE METEOR ORBIT

METEORITE
CONSTELLATION GALAXY MOON
ECLIPSE
GRAVITY PLANET
ZENITH
ASTEROID COMET
SATELLITE
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Name _______________ Date _____________

Planet For Sale!

Intro:
You and your partner are realtors who are selling a planet in our solar system. You
want to advertise globally, and universally, so you will create a web page. This web
page will compete against other solar retaliator web pages, so be creative!

Your Page Should Include:

 Planet name?

 What number is the planet from the sun?

 What is the distance from earth?

 What is the closest planet? How far away is that?

 What makes up the atmosphere? (Temperature, weather, etc.)

 What makes up the surface? (Any crustal activity? For example: quakes,
volcanoes, etc.)

 What is its mass?

 Does the planet have any moons and/or rings? If so, what are their names?

 What is its orbital period? (How long does it take it to orbit the sun? How many
“earth years” is that?)

 What is its rotation period? (How long does it take spin once around its axis?)

 What, if any, myth or legend is about this planet?

 Have any space missions visited this planet? Which ones? Did they land or just
fly by?

 Anything else interesting?

Also Include On Your Page:

 Name of realtor company

 Logo of your company

 Name of you and your partner (Only your first names)

 Date of last revision:

  Two other web sites you recommend the buyer to visit for more
information about your planet (Hyperlinks)

 Graphics

 Home Page – button

Time Line:
Day 1 & 2:

1. Go over project

2. Find partner

3. Answer questions up above (You can use the internet or library)

Day 3 & 4:

1. On computer please do the following

 Open Microsoft Publisher

 Click on web sites

 Click on a web page template (Pick one you like.)

 Change the info. by deleting and adding

2. Good luck! Take your time, this is going on the information highway
(Internet).