Jovian Planets

The most commonly found gases on the Jovian (gas giant) planets are

• carbon dioxide and nitrogen

• chlorine and oxygen

• hydrogen and helium

• nitrogen and argon

The Jovian gas giant planets are

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

• Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto.

• Uranus, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter.

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Beside hydrogen and helium, Neptune and Uranus each have what two gaseous compounds in their composition?

• Methane and Ammonia

• Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide

• Diatomic Chlorine and Nitrogen

• Nitrous Oxide and Carbon Monoxide

Which of the Gas Giants have ring systems?

• Saturn and Neptune

• Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune

• Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

• They all of have ring systems.

The magnetic fields of the Gas Giants are

• small and weak

• large and strong

• nonexistent

The diameter of Jupiter is nearly this many times larger than that of Neptune.

• 1.5x

• 2x

• 2.5x

• 3x

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Neptune is so far from the sun that it takes nearly _________ days to orbit the sun.

• 60,000

• 50,000

• 40,000

• 30,000

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Jupiter takes slightly more than this many Earth years to orbit the sun.

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Jupiter is so massive, that it causes tidal forces to flex the moon ______so intensely that it is the most volcanic body in the solar system.

• Europa

• Ganymede

• Io

• Titan

Jovian planets share which of the following characteristics, making them very different from terrestrial planets like Venus or Mars?

• large mass, no solid surface, many moons, ring systems

• rocky surface, few or no moons, liquid water

• plate tectonics, many impact craters, small size

• ring systems, few or no moons, rocky surface