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13 The Largest Volcano on Earth #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 54 ©Teacher Created Resources Warm-Up Check Your Understanding / 4 Name ______________________________________________ 1. According to the passage, what is probably at the center of Jupiter? a. helium c. ammonia b. rock d. methane 2. What produced the Great Red Spot? a. oceans c. rapid spinning of the planet b. belts of wind d. both b and c 3. According to the passage, how many moons orbit Jupiter? a. sixty-three c. twenty-four b. ten d. fifty-one 4. Why would Jupiter be impossible for humans to live on? a. It has the largest moon in the solar system. b. Its days are ten hours long. c. The average temperature is too cold. d. all of the above Jupiter is the fifth planet in the solar system in distance from the sun. It is by far the largest object in the solar system, other than the sun. Jupiter contains more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined. If Jupiter were hollow, more than 1,000 Earths could fit inside this gas giant. Jupiter’s mass is about 318 times the mass of Earth. Jupiter is sometimes considered to be a “failed sun.” However, it is at least eighty times too small to ignite as a star. There are four main gases in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Beneath layers of these gases, Jupiter has oceans of liquid nitrogen about 12,000 miles deep. Beneath the oceans, there is probably a solid core of rock and iron about the size of Earth. Jupiter spins on its axis so fast that its day is only about ten hours long. However, the rapid spinning makes belts of winds circle the planet. These belts created a giant storm called the Great Red Spot, which has been blowing over the planet for more than three hundred years. The average temperature on Jupiter is about 225°F colder than Earth. Jupiter has sixty-three known moons and thousands of huge rocks orbiting the planet. The first four moons were discovered by Galileo. Two of them are a little smaller than Earth’s moon in diameter. One of them is the largest moon in the solar system. It is larger than the planet Mercury. Jupiter’s fourth moon is about the size of Mercury. The remaining moons are much smaller. Scientifically Speaking Download 10.24 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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