Download EARTH SCIENCE HOMEWORK 9-29 Jupiter

EARTH SCIENCE HOMEWORK, Ch. 24, Sec 3
Jupiter
1. In 1979, the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flew past
_________, the fifth planet from the Sun. (pg. 702, P2)
2. The Voyager probes revealed that Jupiter has faint ________
________ (2 words) around it and that one of its moons has active
__________ on it. (pg. 702, P2)
3. Jupiter is composed (made) mostly of ___________ and
_________, with some ammonia, methane and water vapor. (pg.
702, P3)
4. Scientists hypothesize that the atmosphere of hydrogen and
helium changes to an ocean of _________ hydrogen and helium
toward the middle of the planet. (pg. 702, P3)
5. Below this liquid layer might be a _________ core. (pg. 702, P3)
6. Continuous storms of swirling, high-pressure ________ have been
observed on Jupiter. (pg. 702, P4)
7. The Great ________ ___________ (2 words) is the most
spectacular of these storms. (pg. 702, P4)
8. At least 63 _________ orbit Jupiter. (pg. 703, P1) (book says 61)
9. In 1610, Galileo Galilei was the first person to see Jupiter’s
________ largest moons. (pg. 703, P1)
10.
_____ is the closest moon to Jupiter (pg. 703, P1)
11.
Jupiter’s tremendous ____________ force and the gravity of
__________, Jupiter’s next largest moon, pull on Io. (pg. 703, P1)
12.
This force heats up Io, causing it to be the most volcanically
___________ object in the solar system. (pg. 703, P1)
13.
Europa is composed mostly of _______ with a thick smooth
crust of _______. (pg. 703, P1)
14.
Under the ice might exist an ________ as deep as 200 km.
(pg. 703, P1)
15.
Ganymede is the __________ moon in the solar systemlarger even than the planet Mercury. (pg. 703, P1)
16.
___________, the last of Jupiter’s large moons, is composed
mostly of rock and ice. (pg. 703, P1)