Comparing
Earth and Rocky Planets
Earth and Rocky Planets
Water and Energy have been described as the reason why planets might be considered as this
What is habitable?
Gerya created an example of this to test his idea about novae formation on Venus
What is a model?
These are the main characteristics that most flowing water channels have
What are narrow, curved, and branching?
This is the first step in a scientific argument
What is a question?
This is the formula for water
What is H2O?
These planets have solid surfaces that have been changed over time
This was used because of its thick consistency and what happens when it cools to model how lava moves
What is wax?
What is sediment?
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?
These are three states of matter
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
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?
This factor play a role on how deep and narrow a channel can become
At the base of flowing water channels sediments spread out to form this kind of landform
What is an alluvial fan?
This is the method that organizes scientific argumentation
What is C.E.R.?
This is the smallest unit of a living thing
What is a cell?
These scientists have allowed us to use our knowledge about Earth to study if other planets were once habitable
What are Planetary geologists?
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?
This type of rock is formed when sediments are pressed and cemented together over time and are found near flowing water channels
What is conglomerate rock?
This graphic organizer helps scholars explain why different pieces of evidence matters to the claim
What is a Reasoning Tool?
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis
What is 24 hours?
The interactions between these continue to the change of a planet's surface shape
What are spheres?
A long, narrow groove called this leaves evidence of a planet's past
What is a channel?
When lava cools and hardens it forms this rock that is black in color and the same throughout
What is basalt?
This sentence is a proposed answer to the investigation question for a scientific argument
What is a claim?
This is the main source of energy in our solar system
What is the Sun?