Name _____________________________________________________________

Date ______________________________________________________________
Teacher __________________________________________________ 4th Grade

Date _______________________________________________________________

Solar System Mini-Quiz

Directions: As you read, fill in the blanks below using the words
provided in the word bank.

List the following planets in order based on their sequence from

the Sun.

Solar System Cloze Activity

Solar System Word Bank

Sun
inner
Jupiter
Solar System
planets
Pluto

center
Earth
outer

gas
life
one

asteroid
Mercury
rock

Our ___________________________________ consists of the Sun, eight

___________________________, an ________________________ belt, and
many comets and meteors. The Sun is the ______________________
of our Solar System. The planets, their moons, the asteroids, comets,
meteoroids

1. ___________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________

and

other

rocks

and

gas

all

orbit

the

___________________________. The planets that orbit the Sun are (in

order from the Sun): ____________________________, Venus, Earth,
Mars, ________________________ (the biggest planet in our Solar

3. ___________________________________________________

System), Saturn (with large, orbiting rings), Uranus, and Neptune.

4. ___________________________________________________

___________________, a dwarf planet, was once a part of the

5. ___________________________________________________

planets

6. ___________________________________________________

_____________________ planets (those planets that orbit close to the

7. ___________________________________________________

Sun) are quite different from the ____________________ planets

8. ___________________________________________________

(those planets that orbit far from the Sun). The inner planets are

9. Earth is known as an inner planet along with what other

planets?
a. Mars, Mercury, Jupiter
b. Mercury, Venus, Mars
c. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune
10. The Sun is a _____________________.
a. Comet
b. Planet
c. Star

Mercury, Venus, ______________________, and Mars. They are

that

orbit

the

Sun,

but

is

no

longer.

The

relatively small, composed mostly of ___________________, and have

few or no moons. Earth only has ________________ moon. The outer
planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They are mostly
huge, mostly made of ___________________, ringed, and have many
moons. Out of all of the planets in the Solar System, Earth is the only
known planet that can support a variety of ______________________.