Rocky Planets
What planet is the second planet from the sun and most similar to Earth in size?
What is Venus?
What is an example of a model we used in this unit?
What is a stream table?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world...
What is Claim?
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 the larget organ in the human body?
Skin
Having the conditions necessary to support life
what is habitable?
All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
What is the Hydrosphere?
What landform have we been studying on the surface of Mars?
What is the biggest difference between a rocky planet and a gas giant?
What is a solid surface?
Who is the first president of the USA?
George Washington
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
All the living things on a planet.
What is the biosphere?
What were the two claims that we are investigating in this unit?
1. Water is responsible for the formation of the channels on Mars.
2.Lava is responsible for the formation of the channels on Mars.
What is the rocky planet closest to the sun?
Mercury
What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid
What are the three parts to a scientific argument?
What are claim, evidence, and reasoning?
The solid part of a rocky planet.
What is the geosphere?
What are two reasons humans haven't travelled to Mars?
What are distance and fuel (food, conditions, tech., etc...)?
Name all the rocky planets?
What are Mercury, Earth, Venus, and Mars?
Which laguage has the most native speakers in the world?
Mandarin Chinese
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or lava
What is Geologic process
Name the different types of spheres in the system.
Geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere
What is the main key concept of landforms?
Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic processes that formed them stop happening.