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Volcanoes in the Solar System
Pages 110-112
1. Look at Figure 14 on page 110 of your textbook. What created the moon’s
craters?
2. Still looking at Figure 14. What created the moon’s dark areas?
3. Which planet, Mars or Venus, has the greater number of volcanoes?
4. Which planet has the largest volcanic mountain? What is it called?
5. Which three bodies in the solar system are known to have active volcanoes?
6. How do volcanic features on Venus and Mars compare to volcanic features on
Earth?
7. Are the volcanoes on Io and Triton similar to the volcanoes on Earth? Explain.
Fill in the following chart and answer the questions that follow by completing some
research on the Internet.
Planets
Evidence Eruptions
Named Moons
Eruptions
of
Observed?
Observed?
Volcanic
Activity?
Mercury
0
Venus
0
Earth
1
Mars
2
Jupiter
16
Saturn
18
Uranus
15
Neptune
8
Which one
is different
than the
others?
Which one
is different
than the
others?
8. How many moons are there in our solar system?
9. On how many of the moons have eruptions been observed?
10. Find out for whom Uranus’s moons were named.
11. Find out for whom Mars, Phobos, and Deimos were named.