Vocabulary
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet.
What is a landform?
All of the living things on a planet.
What is the biosphere?
A scientific argument always starts with this.
What is a question?
The BIG reason we investigated the geology on Mars.
Was Mars once habitable?
A scientist may use this to test their ideas about processes that are difficult to observe in person.
What is a model?
What is a channel?
The mixture of gases surrounding a planet.
What is atmosphere?
This part of a scientific argument supports a claim.
What is evidence?
The landform we investigated on Mars.
What is a channel?
Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets can be thought of as _______________.
What are systems?
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What are systems?
All the liquid and solid water on a planet.
What is hydrosphere?
Clearly explains how the evidence supports the claim.
What is reasoning?
The two claims we proposed for this investigation.
What is flowing water and flowing lava?
When landforms on different rocky planets look similar, it is evidence that they may have been formed by the same _______________________.
What is geologic process?
Having the conditions necessary to support life?
What is "habitable"?
The solid part of a rocky planet.
What is geosphere?
A proposed answer to a scientist's question.
What is a claim?
The movement of sediments to another place.
What is erosion?
Supports or goes against a claim.
What is evidence?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geoshpere.
What is "geologic process"?
The system responsible for erosion.
What is hydrosphere?
This part of an argument links a claim and evidence together.
What is reasoning?
The geologic process in which sediments are settled into a new place.
What is deposition?
Think about the cola question. A convincing argument should have these two components.
What is evidence and reasoning?