Gas Giant Planet Review

Gas Giant Planet Review

10th - 12th Grade

16 Qs

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Gas Giant Planet Review

Gas Giant Planet Review

Assessment

Quiz

Physics

10th - 12th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-ESS1-3, MS-ESS1-2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Justin Gailey

Used 17+ times

FREE Resource

16 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is larger, Jupiter or Saturn?

Jupiter

Saturn

They're the same size

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of these are common features to both Jupiter and Saturn (choose all that apply)

Differential rotation causing storms and bands

Magnetic fields caused by metallic hydrogen deep in the mantle

Hexagonal cloud formations at their north poles

A composition that is mostly hydrogen

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The order of Saturn's rings are:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G

D, C, B, A, F, G, E

D, B, F, G, E, C, A

F, E, G, A, B, C, D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Jupiter has light and dark bands on its surface. The light bands are called zones. The dark bands are called:

dark zones

regions

belts

sectors

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Differential rotation on Jupiter and Saturn is driven by what?

Convection currents

Large storms

Moons orbiting in different direction

Volcanic activity

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why is it appropriate to call Jupiter the solar system's vacuum cleaner?

It's magnetic field attracts all the cosmic rays from the sun

It has so many moons

It caused a gap in the asteroid belt where there aren't any planets

It has attracted and deflected asteroids and comets, minimizing free bodies in the solar system

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why does Saturn have fewer cyclonic storms like Jupiter?

Saturn has less energy to drive the storms

Saturn has less differential rotation

Saturn has fewer large moons to spin them up

Rotational energy is stored in the rings instead

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