Comparing
Earth and Rocky Planets
Using Models as Evidence
Analyzing
New Evidence
Skills in Science
Random Science Questions
100

Water and Energy have been described as the reason why planets might be considered as this

What is habitable?

100

Gerya created an example of this to test his idea about novae formation on Venus

What is a model?

100

This includes all of the living things on a planet.  Examples include mammals, birds, fish, plants, and bacteria.  

What is the biosphere?

100

This is the first step in a scientific argument

What is a question?

100

Scientists use these to help them understand something that took many years to form, or is too far away to directly observe. 

What are models?

200

These planets have solid surfaces that have been changed over time

What are rocky planets?
200

This was used because of its thick consistency and what happens when it cools to model how lava moves

What is wax?

200
When water travels through a landform, it wears down different pieces of rock that forms this

What is sediment?

200

In order to organize the information gathered in an investigation,  scholars can use this tool to determine which piece of information is the most or least convincing

What is the Evidence Gradient Tool?

200

These are three states of matter

What are solid, liquid, and gas?

300

This planet has frozen water at its poles and it is said to have a system that is most like Earth's

What is Mars?

300

This sphere refers to the water that is found on a planet.

What is the hydrosphere?

300

At the base of flowing water channels sediments spread out to form this kind of landform

What is an alluvial fan?

300

This is the method that organizes scientific argumentation

What is C.E.R.?

300

This sphere contains the mixture of gases that surround a planet.

What is the atmosphere?

400

These scientists have allowed us to use our knowledge about Earth to study if other planets were once habitable

What are Planetary geologists?


400

A bucket of water with a tube and the tray of sand represented this in a geologic process

What are flowing water and the geosphere?

400

This is a set of interacting parts that form a complex "whole."

What is a system?

400

The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim.

What is a reasoning?

400

The rocky planets.

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

500

The interactions between these continue to the change of a planet's surface shape 

What are spheres?

500

A long, narrow groove called this leaves evidence of a planet's past

What is a channel?

500

This would be an indication of habitability on another planet.

What is frozen or liquid water?

500

This sentence is a proposed answer to the investigation question for a scientific argument

What is a claim?

500

This is the main source of energy in our solar system

What is the Sun?

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