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Pearson- unit 2 week 5

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1
What detail from the selection does the author use to describe all of the planets in the solar system?
It takes Neptune 165 Earth years to go around the sun just once.
Let's take a brief journey through our little corner of the universe.
If you are lucky, you will also be able to see a planet or two.
Each planet moves around the sun.
2
The author includes the detail "it is so big, it could contain more than a million Earths" to help the reader-
recognize that the sun is at the center of the solar system
know how the planets move around the sun
connect the location of the sun to Earth
understand the size of the sun
3
The selection states that our solar system has eight planets. How does that relate to the author's purpose for this text
inform us that planets are just stars.
entertain the reader with a story about eight planets.
to tell how many planets our solar system has to teach us more about.
explain that there are really nine planets instead of eight.
4
The author most likely wrote this selection to--
explain how Earth is the most interesting planet.
inform readers of the name of our solar system
describe what makes up our solar system
compare the planets to the sun
5
Which sentence from the selection contains a detail that supports the author's message that each planet is unique?
Uranus is the only planet that spins end over end, like a soccer ball.
The closest star to us is the sun, which is the center of our solar system.
The solar system is made up of the sun, 8 planets, other objects around it
Each of them moves around the sun