It's back to Solar System Studies 101 for a look at Venus. Click on the planet Venus. We will read the information together. You will then go back and fill in the blanks (below), using the information on screen to help you.
Venus is _______ _________ __________ ________ ____
_________. It is one of the _____ ________ _________.
These planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The inner
planets are also called the _______ ___________, because they
are made of _______.
Venus is sometimes called the __________ _______ and the
__________ ______. It is very bright. You can see it at sunset
and sunrise. It is so bright it looks like a star, but it does not
twinkle.
Venus spins _______ ___________. One "day" on Venus is longer
than one year on Venus!!! It takes Venus 243 days to spin around its
axis one time. This means that one Venus day is 243 "Earth Days"
long. Venus orbits, or goes around the sun, in only 225 days! This
means one Venus year is 225 days long!!!
Venus is different from all the other planets because it spins
__________ on its axis.
Astronomers call Venus Earth's "sister planet" because it is about _______
________ _________ ____________ _________.
Its gravity is also about the same as Earth's gravity. This means you
would weigh about the same amount on Venus and on Earth. Venus,
however, is very different from Earth.
Earth has big oceans and a lot of water vapor in the air. Earth has clouds
made of water vapor. Earth has an atmosphere made of gases called
oxygen and nitrogen. Our atmosphere also has a little bit of carbon
dioxide and other gases in it.
Venus has ____ ________. Its atmosphere is made mostly of
__________ __________. There is almost no water vapor in its
air. Venus is __________ _____________ ____ _________
made of acid. (sulpheric acid)
The clouds cover the whole surface of Venus. They let sunlight in,
but ______ ______ ______ _________ _______ . This makes
Venus very, very ____. It is even __________ _______
_______________ which is closer to the sun! The temperature on
the surface of Venus is about 900 degrees Fahreheit! That is nine
times as hot as a 100 degree day on Earth!
Like Mercury, the surface of Venus is covered with craters made by
meteorites. There are also many volcanoes on Venus. The volcanoes are
not active anymore, which means they _____ ______ ______.
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