Rocky Planets
What is the biggest difference between a rocky planet and a gas giant?
What is a solid surface?
This planet is the only planet that we know of that has living organisms
What is Earth?
What is an example of a model we used in this unit?
What is a stream table?
Made up of a mixture of gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen, but also small amounts of other gases that include crabon dioxide.
What is atmosphere?
The __________ steepness (elevation) of a channel, the deeper the channel.
What is higher?
This planet is most similar to Earth in geosphere. It is the fourth planet from the sun and appears red.
What is Mars?
What is needed to make a planet habitable?
What is an energy source and liquid water?
What are the three parts to a scientific argument?
What are claim, evidence, and reasoning?
Name at least three examples of a hydrosphere on a planet.
What is liquid water (lakes, rivers, oceans), solid water (ice, glaciers), and gaseous water (condensation of clouds, precipitation)?
What landform have we been studying on the surface of Mars?
What planet is the second planet from the sun and most similar to Earth in size?
What is Venus?
What is a sol?
Having the conditions necessary to support life
what is habitable?
All the living things on a planet.
What is the biosphere?
What type of rock is formed by flowing lava?
What is an igneous rock? (also I would take basalt)
What is the raised-dome landform on the surface of Venus called?
What is a novae?
What planet has the highest surface temperature and why?
What is Venus? Why is because of its thick atmosphere (higher greenhouse gases)?
Name 5 examples of systems.
What is (Mr. Bednar determines correct answers)?
The solid part of a rocky planet.
What is the geosphere?
What NASA rover photographed rocks on the bottom of Gale Crater?
What is rover Curiosity?
What type of orbit do planets take around the Sun?
What is an elliptical orbit?
Name the planets in order from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (I'd take Pluto)?
True or false: Landforms cause geologic processes to occur.
What is false?
Name the different types of spheres in the system.
Geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere
What is the specific name of the rock that was found at the bottom of the channel?
What is a conglomerate rock?
DAILY DOUBLE QUESTION
Name all five Mars rovers that have been sent by the United States....