Space Club 10

Space Club 10

The Gas Giants: Jupiter and Saturn

Multiple Choice

Which planet is the hottest because of its thick atmosphere?

• Venus

• Mercury

• Saturn

• Neptune

Multiple Choice

Which planet is closest to the Sun?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

Multiple Choice

Which planet is the only one with liquid water?

• Earth

• Mars

• Neptune

• Uranus

Multiple Choice

Which planet is called the Red Planet?

• Venus

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Mars

Multiple Select

What are the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars called?

• The inner planets

• The terrestrial planets

• The rocky planets

• The mini planets

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

True or false: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are made mostly of gas.

• True

• False

Draw

Circle Jupiter and Saturn.

Multiple Select

Each one of the outer planets is ______ than Earth. Choose two.

• Colder

• Hotter

• Smaller

• Bigger

Multiple Choice

The four planets beyond the Asteroid Belt make up what percent of the total mass of all celestial bodies that orbit our Sun?

• 20%

• 99%

• 80%

• 50%

Multiple Choice

True or false: The gas giants do NOT have a core of liquid metal and rock.

• True

• False

Remember the Planets

First letter of every word begins with the same letter as the planet.

My Very Enthusiastic Mother Just Served Us Noodles.

Most volcanically active spot in the Solar System

Io

Jupiter's moon Io may be small (roughly the size of Earth's moon) compared to the planet, but Io still has a mighty impact on its parent planet.

Draw

Which one is Io?

Smallest of the four Galillean moons of Jupiter

Europa

Scientists are almost certain that hidden beneath the icy surface of Europa is a salty-water ocean thought to contain twice as much water as Earth’s oceans combined.

Draw

Which one is Europa?

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System.

Titan

Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and even larger than the planet Mercury. Titan is the only moon in our solar system that has clouds and a dense atmosphere, and the only world apart from Earth with liquids on its surface.

Draw

Circle four moons that are on the cards.

A multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Appearing in the scene are several bright-white "pop-up" clouds as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as a white oval.

​Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

This composite image was generated by combining NASA imagery of Earth with an image of Jupiter taken by astronomer Christopher Go.

Red Spot is bigger than Earth.

What causes different colors in the swirling clouds of gas giants?

​See you next week, space explorers!