Key Concepts
Vocabulary
Unit Questions
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Landforms
100

What does it mean if your location has the things needed to support life?

It is Habitable

100

What is a system?


a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole

100

What is the name of the system that includes the sun and all of its orbiting planets?

the solar system

100

What is a claim?

A statement that explains the answer to a question.

100

What is a landform?

A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune

200

what can scientists use to help them test ideas and gather information about processes in the natural world?


A model

200

what is the geosphere?

The solid part of a rocky planet

200

Why haven't humans traveled beyond the Moon since we landed on it in the late 1960's?

Because of the size and distances between objects in outer space.

200

name a type of evidence to use in a scientific argument.

A Graph

An Article

A Model

An Observation

A Sample

200

A long narrow groove that forms where liquids flow

Channel
300

What are the 4 systems that make up a rocky planet?

Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Atmosphere and Biosphere

300

What is the Hydrosphere

all the liquid water and solid water (ice) on a planet

300

What are the two things a planet needs to be considered habitable?

liquid water, and an energy source. 
300

What is a Scientific Argument

a claim supported by evidence, connected with reasoning

300

What is the name of the type of rock you can find a the delta of a channel formed by water?

Sedimentary Rocks

Conglomerate

400

Complete the sentence:

If Landforms on different rocky planets look the same, then... 

those landforms were made by similar gologic processes

400

Name an example of systems that interact to form a channel

The Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and Geosphere. 

400

 How can we gather more evidence about whether water or lava formed the channel on Mars?

by using models

by reading articles

by collecting samples

400

What is reasoning in the context of a scientific argument?

Reasoning explains how and why you chose a piece of evidence to support your claim. 

400

How would you describe the shapes of a channel made by flowing water?

Curvey

Branching

Deep

Winding

500

Why are landforms important when trying to answer the question "was this planet habitable in the past?"

because they remain after the process that formed them has stopped. 

500
What is a Geologic Process?

An event or series of events that cause changes in the geosphere

500

How can we search for evidence that other planets were once habitable?


by creating a scientific argument to answer the question "what made the channel on mars?"

500

How could you use pictures of a channel on earth as evidence to support the claim "the channel on mars was made by flowing water?"

by comparing the shapes of both channels and finding similar shapes or features between them

500

What is the name of the process that breaks down rocks into smaller parts?

Weathering or Erosion

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