Planet Facts
Flyers coaching · Reading & Writing Part 4 · Space and Science
Our planets
There are eight planets in our solar system. Mercury is the smallest planet and it is the nearest (1) ______ the Sun. Venus is (2) ______ hottest planet: about 465 °C!
Earth is the only planet (3) ______ water and life. Mars is red and rocky, and it has two moons. Scientists think people (4) ______ visit Mars one day, but they (5) ______ live there soon. It is too cold.
Saturn is famous (6) ______ its beautiful rings. It is very big, but it is (7) ______ of gas, so a rocket won’t land on it.
Every year, scientists (8) ______ new things about space. Maybe one day you will be (9) ______ astronaut too! What (10) ______ you discover?
Vocabulary
- rocket — A machine that flies very fast up into space.
- space — The place far above the Earth where the stars and planets are.
- Mars — This is the red planet, next to the Earth.
- moon — It goes round the Earth and shines in the sky at night.
- scientist — A person who studies the world and does experiments.
- experiment — A test that scientists do to learn something new.
- discover — Find something for the first time.
- rocky — With a lot of rocks.
- ring — A big circle of ice and rock that goes around a planet.
- Saturn — This big planet has beautiful rings around it.
Sample questions (10 questions)
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