90920269-astronomy-assessment-solar-system-sun-moon-earth.docx

Name _____________________________________________ Date_________________________________
Teacher ___________________________________________________________ Fourth Grade Science
Astronomy Assessment
The Solar System, Sun, Earth, and Moon
4.3.1 Recall that Earth is one of many planets in the solar system that orbit the Sun.
The diagram below represents the Sun and planets in our solar system.
1. Which planet on the diagram represents Earth?
A. G
B. H
C. K
D. M
2. Which of the following planets is a gas planet and not a rocky planet like Earth? 3. Which two planets are closest to Earth?
4. Choose the most likely identity of the planet shown in the student’s diagram above.
4-3.2 Compare the properties (including the type of surface and atmosphere) and the
location of Earth to the Sun, which is a star, and the Moon.