Learning Task 5: Read each statement below. Choose the correct word in parenthesis to make a factual statement about planets. Write the answers on your answer sheets. 1. The nearer a planet to the sun, (the hotter, the colder) it is. 2. Jupiter completes its revolution after (4380, 4381) days. 3. Satum and Jupiter have almost (different, similar) rotation. 4. The nearer a planet to the sun, the (faster, slower) it revolves. 5. Neptune rotates (faster, slower) than Earth.

1. Mercury is the planet that is closest to the sun and therefore gets more direct heat, but even it isn't the hottest. Venus is the second planet from the sun and has a temperature that is maintained at 462 degrees Celsius, no matter where you go on the planet. It is the hottest planet in the solar system.

2. Orbit and Rotation

One day on Jupiter takes only about 10 hours (the time it takes for Jupiter to rotate or spin around once), and Jupiter makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Jovian time) in about 12 Earth years (4,333 Earth days).

3. Jupiter & Saturn are Gas Giants

Rotate rapidly as measured from their magnetic fields: Jupiter Rotates once every 9h 50m. Saturn Rotates once every 10h 14m.

4. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the stronger the Sun's gravitational pull on it, and the faster the planet moves. The farther it is from the Sun, the weaker the Sun's gravitational pull, and the slower it moves in its orbit.

5. Orbit and Rotation

One day on Neptune takes about 16 hours (the time it takes for Neptune to rotate or spin once). And Neptune makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Neptunian time) in about 165 Earth years (60,190 Earth days).