Callisto/Quiz

Callisto is a lecture as part of the astrogeology series which includes rocky objects.

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This Voyager 2 image of Callisto shows the side opposite to the image from Galileo. Credit: NASA/JPL.

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1 True or False, The leading hemisphere is the hemisphere facing the direction of the orbital motion; the trailing hemisphere faces the reverse direction.

	TRUE
	FALSE

2 The cryosphere of Callisto is likely to include which of the following?

	water in solid form
	sea ice
	rain
	lake ice
	river ice
	snow cover
	glaciers
	ice caps
	ice sheets

3 The science of the behavior of frozen snow is called

4 Chemistry phenomena associated with Callisto are

	the human genome
	water
	carbon dioxide
	organic compounds
	silicates
	plastic

5 Complete the text:

With respect to Callisto, the cratered plains constitute most of the area and represent the lithosphere, a mixture of ice and material.

6 Complete the text:

Match up the astroglacial object with each of the possibilities below:

ice cap - A

optical characteristics of sediment suspensions - B

water in solid form - C

behavior of frozen snow - D

ice sheets - E

ice knobs - F

cryopediology .

lake Veitastrondsvatn .

Callisto .

cryosphere .

Antarctica and Greenland

Vatnajökull, Iceland .

7 Complete the text:

Match up the object with the image:

Callisto - A

Vatnajökull, Iceland - B

the Cryosphere - C

Antarctica - D

Ganymede - E

Europa - F

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8 Which of the following is not an astronomical cryosphere?

	Vatnajökull, Iceland
	the photosphere
	the last ice sheets in Europe and North America
	the cryosphere of Callisto
	frozen snow
	ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland

9 True or False, During the last glacial period of Callisto the Laurentide period ice sheet covered much of Valhalla.

	TRUE
	FALSE

10 Which of the following is not an astronomical characteristic of ice?

	an albedo as high as 80%
	thin water frost deposits
	ice knobs
	tidal heating events
	surface is composed of water ice and is one of the smoothest in the Solar System
	the bright rays on the surface of Callisto

11 Yes or No, The tidal flexing of the ice on Callisto may have heated the interior and strained the lithosphere, leading to the development of cracks and horst and graben faulting, which erased the old, dark terrain on 70% of the surface?

	No
	Yes

Hypotheses

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1. Callisto has more ice on or near its surface than at greater depth.

See also

• Astronomy/Quiz
• Geology/Quiz
• Geomorphology/Quiz
• Glaciology/Quiz
• Minerals/Quiz

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