Jupiter: the Fifth Planet: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant. That means it is a huge planet made mostly of gases, with no solid surface to stand on.

One year on Jupiter, the time it takes to travel once around the Sun, lasts about 12 Earth years.

Jupiter is known for the Great Red Spot, a giant storm. Winds on Jupiter are so strong that one storm has lasted for hundreds of years.

The temperature on Jupiter is about minus 110 degrees Celsius at the cloud tops. Jupiter is the largest planet; more than 1,000 Earths could fit inside it.

Questions

Details How long is one year on Jupiter?
about 12 Earth years 225 Earth days 365 days about 29 Earth years
Details What is Jupiter known for?
red, rusty dust the fastest winds in the solar system a tilt that makes it spin on its side the Great Red Spot, a giant storm
Cause and effect Why does Jupiter have the Great Red Spot, a giant storm?
Its winds can blow at about 2,000 kilometers an hour, faster than the speed of sound on Earth. The rings are made of billions of pieces of ice and rock circling the planet. Scientists think a huge object crashed into it long ago and knocked it over. Winds on Jupiter are so strong that one storm has lasted for hundreds of years.
Vocabulary What does "gas giant" mean in the passage?
an opening in a planet's surface where melted rock comes out a bowl-shaped hole made when a space rock hits a surface a huge planet made mostly of gases, with no solid surface to stand on flat bands of ice and rock that circle a planet
Details Where is Jupiter in order from the Sun?
the fourth planet the fifth planet the third planet the eighth planet
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
what the planet Earth is like what the planet Jupiter is like what the planet Mercury is like what the planet Venus is like

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