Solar System and Planets Worksheet (Grade 6)
Free printable solar system worksheet for Grade 6. Students learn the eight planets in order, the Sun, moons, asteroids and comets, with an answer key.
How to teach the solar system teaching guide, with a worked explanation.
Grade 6 · Science worksheet
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Solar System and Planets Worksheet
Our solar system has the Sun, eight planets, moons, asteroids and comets. Read each clue and write the answer.
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MarsHeatEarthDwarfCometRocketNeptuneJupiterMercuryAsteroid
- 1.Pluto is no longer called a planet. It is now called a blank planet.
- 2.A ball of ice and dust that orbits the Sun and grows a glowing tail is a blank .
- 3.Which planet is closest to the Sun?
- a) Mercury
- b) Venus
- c) Earth
- 4.Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
- a) Saturn
- b) Jupiter
- c) Neptune
- 5.A small rocky body that orbits the Sun, many found between Mars and Jupiter, is an blank .
- 6.The Sun gives us light and blank .
- 7.We fly up into space in a blank .
- 8.Which is the farthest planet from the Sun?
- 9.Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
- 10.Which planet do we live on?
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