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- 1. Multiple Choice
How many confirmed moons does Jupiter have?2767270670 - 2. Multiple ChoiceIn what year did Galileo discover moons orbiting Jupiter?1610164016701710
- 3. Multiple ChoiceHow many of Jupiter's moons are referred to as "Galilean moons"?twothreefourfive
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe biggest of Jupiter's moons is _____IoEuropaGanymedeCallisto
- 5. Multiple ChoiceGanymede, the largest moon in our solar system, is even bigger than the planet _____MercuryVenusMarsEarth
- 6. Multiple ChoiceGanymede is mostly rock and ice, but it probably has a liquid _____ coreironhydrogenheliumnickel
- 7. Multiple ChoiceGanymede is crisscrossed with large _____groovesmountain rangescraterscanals
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe second biggest of Jupiter's moons is _____IoEuropaGanymedeCallisto
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe surface of Callisto is mostly _____icedustiron oxidevolcanoes
- 10. Multiple ChoiceHow does Io, Jupiter's third biggest moon, compare in size to our own moon?Io is much smallerIo is slightly smallerIo is slightly biggerIo is much bigger
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich moon is the most volcanic object in the entire solar system?IoEuropaGanymedeCallisto
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich moon is the smallest of the Gailean moons?IoEuropaGanymedeCallisto
- 13. Multiple ChoiceHow does Europa, Jupiter's fourth biggest moon, compare in size to our own moon?Europa is much smallerEuropa is slightly smallerEuropa is slightly biggerEuropa is much bigger
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich moon has an entire ocean of water sealed up under a solid crust of ice?IoEuropaGanymedeCallisto
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe interiors of Ganymede, Io, and Europa are kept warm by _____nuclear fisionnuclear fusiontidal flexingvolcanic activity
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich moon likely has everything it needs to spawn life?IoEuropaGanymedeCallisto
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the name for "scientists who study the possibility of life in space"?cosmologistsexophysiologistsastrobiologistspaleontologists
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe distance from a star where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface is called the _____aqua-regionlife areahabitable zonebio-space
- 19. Multiple ChoiceAll of Jupiter's moons _____are tidally locked to Jupiterhave liquid waterare covered partially in icehave volcanic activity
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhen a moon orbits the planet backwards relative to the others, it's called a _____retrograde orbitheliocentric orbitgeosynchronous orbitprograde orbit
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