ورقة عمل Earth’s Place in Space العلوم المتكاملة الصف الخامس
ورقة عمل Earth’s Place in Space العلوم المتكاملة الصف الخامس
1) Which is of the following describes a planet?
- a swirling ball of gase
- a star a huge ball made out of rock
- a large object that orbits a star
2) The picture below shows Earth travelling around the Sun
How long does it take Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun?
3) Fill in the blanks using the available answer choices.
Planets revolve around the Sun in an ………….orbit.
Blank 1 options
circular
elliptical
4) A ………….contains billions of stars, dust, and gas that are all held together by gravity.
planet
star
moon
galaxy
5) The Milky Way is a………………..that contains more than 200 billion stars.
6) This diagram shows the eight planets and one dwarf planet in the solar system.
Between the inner and outer planets, there is a belt of space rocks called
asteroids
meteors
comets
stars
Lesson Check: Earth’s Place in Space
7) Fill in the blanks using the available answer choices.
Stars appear in the night sky at different times of the year because of Earth’s
(Blank 1) Blank 1 options
rotation on its axis
revolution around the Sun
8) Ben looks up to the night sky in January and notices the constellation Orion. In February he stands in the same spot and notices that the stars have seemed to change position.
Explain why the stars are in a different position during different times of the year.
9) Based on the data in the table, which conclusions can you draw?
- The farther a planet is from the Sun, the shorter its year.
- The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it takes to orbit.
- A year on Mercury is longer than a year on Earth.
- The further a planet is from the Sun the longer its rotation.
