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Our Solar System




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               How much do you know about our 
                       Solar System?                                                                                
 
 I.  Look at the pictures and write the proper vocabulary.
 
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Our    is called the Milky Way. It has more than 200 billion   . Our sun is just one of those stars.
 Eight    orbit, or move around our sun. These planets plus the sun are called the    .
 
 II. Choose the right option.
Our planet, Earth, is the  planet from the sun. Earth orbits the  once every year, or  days.
Earth has one . It is about 385,000 km from Earth. It orbits the Earth  days. Our closest neighbors are the planets .
 
III. Choose the proper form of the verbs.
For hundreds of years, people , "Is Mars like our planet?  life on Mars? Or  life in the past?           
 
Life on Earth  water to exist.  Animated Water Images  So, scientists  asking,  water on  Mars?                          
In 2004, NASA  two robot explorers
or rovers  to Mars. Their mission? To find signs of water.    
 
The rovers  seven months to fly to Mars. 
Since 2004, the rovers  back a lot of information.
 
Who  what the next rovers ?
 
Scientists   that Mars was warmer many years ago.
There  to be rivers and seas on Mars.
A hundred years from now, maybe humans living 
on Mars  oxygen equipment to breath.               
 
IV. Correct the verb tenses in yellow.
1. Right now, a team of astronauts live  350 km above Earth in a spacecraft called International Space Station. 
2. Astronauts used to eat mashed food from tubes, but scientsists discovered  better ways to cook in space.
3. Every day, ISS Astronauts have worked  very hard. They do science experiments, build the space station or exercise.
4. When Bill Shepherd have  free time, he liked to e-mail people at home and watch movies.
5. In the future, it cost  the united States and other countries billions of dollars to participate in the ISS.
6. Muscles and bones becomes  weak in space. Some scientists believe that humans live  in space some day, so astronauts is studying  other changes that happen to the human body during long periods in low gravity.