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Rocket Trivia Quizizz - Jupiter

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which one of these gases is the most prevalent on Jupiter?

a)

Hydrogen

b)

Helium

c)

Nitrogen

d)

Oxygen

2.

Around how many times more massive would Jupiter have to be to start fusing hydrogen and become a star?

a)

85

b)

75

c)

65

d)

55

3.

Which of these probes was the closest to Jupiter when the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted with its surface?

a)

Juno

b)

Ulysses

c)

Galileo

d)

Voyager 2

4.

Which one of these moons will the JUICE spacecraft NOT mainly explore?

a)

Ganymede

b)

Europa

c)

Callisto

d)

Io

5.

Which ancient civilization is attributed to integrating the velocity of Jupiter along the ecliptic?

a)

Babylon

b)

Greece

c)

Persia

d)

Islamic Caliphate

6.

Who gave the names for the four major moons of Jupiter?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Simon Marius

c)

Giovanni Cassini

d)

Robert Hooke

7.

In 1982, the fifth discovered moon of Jupiter, Amalthea, was first observed at the Lick Observatory in which U.S. state?

a)

Colorado

b)

Hawaii

c)

California

d)

Montana

8.

Jupiter is MATHEMATICALLY usually brighter than which of these objects in the night sky?

a)

Venus

b)

The Sun

c)

The Moon

d)

Mars

9.

Thermal radiation coming from the Jupiter system emanates from which part of it?

a)

Jupiter's atmosphere

b)

Io

c)

Jupiter's core

d)

Jupiter's poles

10.

The Grand Tack Hypothesis for Jupiter's formation states that Jupiter could have formed around how many AU (astronomical units) from the Sun?

a)

2.5

b)

3.5

c)

4.5

d)

5.5