Saturn: the Sixth Planet

Questions

1. Details How long is one year on Saturn?

   687 Earth days about 29 Earth years about 12 Earth years 365 days
2. Details What is Saturn known for?

   the Great Red Spot, a giant storm a surface covered in craters thick clouds that trap heat wide, bright rings
3. Cause and effect Why does Saturn have wide, bright rings?

   Winds on Jupiter are so strong that one storm has lasted for hundreds of years. The rings are made of billions of pieces of ice and rock circling the planet. Its air is mostly carbon dioxide, which holds heat in like a blanket. Scientists think a huge object crashed into it long ago and knocked it over.
4. Vocabulary What does "rings" mean in the passage?

   a large planet made mostly of icy materials like water, ammonia and methane the path a planet takes around the Sun flat bands of ice and rock that circle a planet the layer of gases around a planet
5. Details Where is Saturn in order from the Sun?

   the fifth planet the fourth planet the sixth planet the seventh planet
6. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   what the planet Mars is like what the planet Earth is like why the Moon changes shape what the planet Saturn is like

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