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.
A proposed answer to 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?
What is the difference between a mountain and a plateau?
What is a plateau is flat and a mountain is not.
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?
T or F We do not need more information to find out what caused the channel on Mars.
False we do.
Describe the three spheres involved in the evaporation of a puddle.
geosphere =ground
puddle=hydrosphere
evaporation=atmosphere