Na m e : ___ Date: _
Directions:Here’s a tip. Pay attention to what you really know
or learn about a topic. Then you’ll be able to sort out
facts from opinions.Read the sentences below and decide whether they are fact or opinion.
You may wish to use an encyclopedia for help.____1. The earth’s solar system contains nine planets.____2. Mercury is closest to the sun.____3. Mars is not the coldest planet.____4. Pluto is a useless planet.____5. I think space creatures are living on Venus.____6. Saturn has 28 moons.____7. Uranus is the planet with the weirdest name.____8. Neptune is a big ball of gas with a metal core.____9. Everyone likes movies about outer space.____10. The sun is more than 100 times larger than the earth.____11. Everyone should get a chance to travel into space.____12. Mars is also called the red planet.____13. A day on Venus is 243 earth days long.____14. In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture.____15. I think kids should have to learn about the planets.____16. The earth’s Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959.____17. One of the principal objectives of the Voyager 1 mission was to study Titan, which
is one of Saturn’s satellites.____18. The U.S. government spends too much tax money on space exploration.____19. A tax should be added for all airline flights to fund space travel for kids.____20. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, on Aug. 25, 1989.