Reading Comprehension Skills & Strategies - Level 6

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Learn how Venus compares with Earth. Use the grid to answer the questions. Write

YES, NO, or if you can’t tell from the grid, UNKNOWN.

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1. Venus has an atmosphere unlike Earth’s.


2. Earth and Venus are very close in size.


3. Earth is closer to the sun than is Venus.


4. If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 88 pounds on Venus.


5. It takes less time for Venus to go around the sun than it does for Earth.


6. Compared to Earth, Venus rotates very quickly.


7. You would weigh more on Venus than you would on the moon.


8. Venus can make one trip around the sun faster than it can rotate once.


9. From Earth, Venus is shrouded in a yellowish cloud cover.


10. It is approximately 28 million miles from Earth to Venus.


11. Earth makes one complete rotation on its axis every day.


12. Gravity is stronger on Venus than on Earth.

Planet Diameter Time of Time of Distance Surface

Orbit Rotation from Sun Gravity

Earth 7,926 mi. 365 days 24 hours 96 mil. mi. 1.00

Venus 7,521 mi. 224 days 243 days 68 mil. mi. .88