Solar System bodies

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ADRIANA ESCANDON MEZA 9ª

SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES : VENUS
VOCABULARY PRESENTATION:
• density: quantity or mass of something for each unit area
• caldera: broad, craterlike basin of a volcano • molten : melted
• radius: any straight line that extends from the center to the outside of a circle or sphere
ASSESSMENT:
Answer these following questions. Keep into account the web article to give your statements:
1. Is Venus a hot or cold planet? Why?
Venus is a hot planet because is really near to the sun and make it the planet hotter.

2. What is the brightest planet in the sky? Why?
Is Venus because reflects so much light from the sun.

3. What gas forms the atmosphere on Venus?
Venus in the atmosphere has carbon dioxide

4. What covers the surface of Venus?
Venus is covered of volcanoes

5. How are the interiors of Venus and Earth alike?
Venus and the Earth have an iron core and have molten rocky almost all over the planet.

Complete these following statements with information from the article: “Solar system bodies: Venus”:

1. Information about a topic is found on a Web site You can go to it directly if you know its address.
2. Every site has its own home page which is the first page of the site. Look here for basic information about the site. e
3. A table of contest at the front of a book tells you what is covered in a book. Where would you find this on a Web site?
4. When you click on Link you can go directly to other Web sites.
B. Write T or F next to each statement to tell if it is true or false.
F 1. Venus is the third planet from the sun.
F 2. Venus and Earth are not similar in size.
V 3. Venus reflects so much sunlight that it is usually the brightest planet in the sky.
V 4. The atmosphere on Venus consists mainly of carbon dioxide.
V 5. Carbon dioxide is the same gas that makes soda fizzy.
V 6. The planet Mercury is closer to the sun than Venus is.
F 7. There are no volcanoes on Venus.
V 8. There are nine planets in our solar system.
V 9. It is very hot on Venus.
F 10. Maxwell Montes is the name of the first person to land on Venus.






Complete these following statements with information from the article: “All Summer in a day”:
Lead 1. Headline, byline, dateline
Web site 2. Table of contents, home page, links
Photographer 3. Drawings, maps, tables
B. Write T or F next to each statement to tell if it is true or false.
T 1. A magazine and a Web page both have a
contents page.
F 2. A caption tells who wrote an article.
T 3. Links are found on Web sites.
F 4. A subhead is the same as a subtitle in an article.
F 5. The headline is like the title of a book.
C. Match words and definitions. Write the letter of the correct definition
next to each word.

Slackening a. lessening; slowing down
Resilient b. springy; quick to recover
Surged c. moved forward, as if in a wave
Savored d. delighted in
D. Choose two words from above. Use each word in a sentence.
1. My mom makes one of her specials cakes and my brother savored with a coke.
2. The last time I went to the new restaurant I savored an ice-cream.
3. The wave last month when I went to the beach surged.
4. The thief was resilient with the idea of stilling the bank. He has done it twice.