Venus: the Second Planet

Questions

1. Details How long is one year on Venus?

   225 Earth days 365 days 687 Earth days about 84 Earth years
2. Details What is Venus known for?

   red, rusty dust the Great Red Spot, a giant storm thick clouds that trap heat wide, bright rings
3. Cause and effect Why does Venus have thick clouds that trap heat?

   Its air is mostly carbon dioxide, which holds heat in like a blanket. It has almost no atmosphere to slow down space rocks, so they crash straight into the ground. Its winds can blow at about 2,000 kilometers an hour, faster than the speed of sound on Earth. Winds on Jupiter are so strong that one storm has lasted for hundreds of years.
4. Vocabulary What does "atmosphere" mean in the passage?

   an opening in a planet's surface where melted rock comes out the layer of gases around a planet a lean to one side a huge planet made mostly of gases, with no solid surface to stand on
5. Details Where is Venus in order from the Sun?

   the third planet the second planet the eighth planet the sixth planet
6. Main idea What is this passage mostly about?

   what the planet Jupiter is like what the planet Venus is like why the Moon changes shape what the planet Mars is like

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