1. 7La/1 Know your planet
Name Class
? 1 Fill in the missing words using words from the box.
28 Earth
The planet we live on is called the .
heat light
It gets its and
orbits
from the Sun. The Moon is the Earth’s natural
satellite
. It the Earth 7
once every days. L
a
2 Look at the diagram and fill in the labels. Write the
numbers of the correct sentence in boxes a to e.
a b c 1 On this side it is
night time.
2 The Earth is a
sphere.
3 On this side it is
daytime.
4 Sunlight.
e d
5 The Earth’s axis.
3 Fill in the correct answers. The answers you need
365 days
are in the box.
1 year
a The Earth year has .
365.25 days
b We have a leap year every .
4 years
c The Earth moves around the .
Sun
d The calendar year has .
24 hours
e The Earth goes around the Sun in .
f The Earth does one complete spin every .
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