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In which of the following locations are asteroids not likely to be
located?
A.
Kuiper belt
B.
Oort cloud
C.
in the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune
D.
crossing Earth’s orbit
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 The sun produces large amounts of energy. By what
process does the sun produce energy?
 A. radiation
 B. convection
 C. nuclear fusion
 D. electromagnetic radiation
Vocab Lesson 5
Gas giant
Planetary ring
Homework
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Complete page 169 and read lesson
6
Lesson 5: The Gas Giant Planets
Essential Question:
What is known about the gas
planets?
What is a
gas giant
planet?
 Have deep, massive gas
atmospheres mostly made of
hydrogen and helium.
 Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and
Uranus.
What is
known
about
Jupiter?
 Largest planet, its volume can hold
more than 900 Earths.
 One rotation is just under 10 hours and
its gravity is 253 times more than
Earths.
 Fast winds at 540 km/h and clouds that
stretch in bands from east to west.
 More than 60 moons, Europa has
evidence of liquid water possibly
beneath the surface.
What is
known
about
Saturn?
 Second largest gas planet mostly
composed of hydrogen and helium.
 Planetary ring system is mostly
composed of left over from the
collisions of Saturn’s moons with
comets and asteroids.
 Its moon Enceladus has liquid water
that forms an icy surface or geysers.
 Its largest moon, Titan, has lakes and
ponds filled with liquid methane.
How is
Uranus
unique?
 Axis is tilted almost 98° meaning it is
on its side as it rotates the sun which
takes 84 years.
 For 21 years the North Pole faces the
sun and the other 21 years the poles
reverse as the South Pole faces the
sun.
 Every place has winter (darkness) and
summer periods (daylight).
 During spring and fall there are both
daytime and nighttime periods.
What is
known
about
Neptune?
 Farthest from the sun with sunlight
900 times fainter than on Earth.
 Strongest winds, reaching up to 2,000
km/h.
 The energy that powers the strong
winds comes from the warm interior.
 Triton is the largest moon which orbits
Neptune in the opposite direction than
the rest of the moons.
 Triton is slowly spiraling towards
Neptune, if it gets to close the gravity
will pull it apart.
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