Name:______

"Eight Planets"

Instructions:

Using the words in the word bank, fill in the correct word for each of the blank spaces below.

Eight planets, eight planets,

Eight planets can you name them all?

Eight planets, eight planets,

Spinning round the Sun, shaped like a ball.

On planet number one

You'll be the ______to the Sun

Too hot for an atmosphere

Has only 88 days in a year

Can you name the planet?

It's almost 1000 ______hot in the day

And 200 below zero at night

What's a guy supposed to wear on MERCURY?

When you hear of the "Evening Star"

Our sister planet that's not ______far

2nd from the Sun reflecting light

That's ______it's so bright

Can you name the planet?

Some people call it Earth's twin

because it's about the same size

You don't have to be a genius to know I'm talking about VENUS.

Third from the Sun

Count the moons, there's only one

It's the home of living things

Fish, ______and human beings

Can you name the planet?

C'mon, now. Everybody's got to get this.

You've got to get this. You've just got to get this!

It's EARTH.

Eight planets, eight planets,

Eight planets can you name them all?

Eight planets, eight planets,

Spinning round the Sun, shaped like a ball.

It's called the "Red Planet"

In 1976 two ______landed on it

It might have supported life

When they found frozen water and dry ice

Can you name the planet?

Galileo first ______it in 1610

Over 360 years later, Mariner landed on MARS.

It's the largest of them all

There's a "Great Red Spot" on this ______gas ball

12 years to orbit the Sun

More than 24 ______, why do we only have one?

Can you name the planet?

You know, a day only lasts 10 hours on our 5th planet

That means you could go to school twice a day, if you lived on JUPITER

It's the 2nd largest planet

It's known for the ______around it

They're made of rock and ice

It's much colder than earth, no ______for life

Can you name the planet?

Those rings look like a big hoola-hoop

It must be fun to be SATURN

Eight planets, eight planets,

Eight planets can you name them all?

Eight planets, eight planets,

Spinning round the Sun, shaped like a ball.

There's a blue and green ball of gas

It also has rings, floating round its mass

Moons both ______and small

A rocky center in this ball

Can you name the planet?

It's named after the ______god of the heavens

You're kidding me; it's really called URANUS?

Takes one hundred sixty four years

To ______the Sun... what a wait!

3 billion miles from the earth

From the Sun it's number eight

Can you name the planet?

Well, it's so far away that we don't ______much about it

But we do know that it has two moons

And the answer is NEPTUNE.

Eight planets, eight planets,

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,

The first 4 planets you need to know

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

There used to be a planet called PLUTO.

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