Geology on Mars
Mars is this type of planet.
What is a rocky planet?
What are two plates moving away from each other?
This rock is formed from cooled magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
This phase change occurs when a solid turns directly into a liquid as heat is added.
What is melting?
This is the term used to describe characteristics of elements and substances.
What are properties?
This happens to resources when populations grow too quickly.
What is resources decrease?
Definition: The ability to make things move or change.
What is energy?
This object is found directly in the center of the Solar System.
What is the Sun?
A long groove that forms in the ground from water, lava, or another liquid
What is a channel?
Name the landform that is a result of two boundaries converging to create the Himalayas.
What is Mount Everest?
This rock forms from layers of sediment and is cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
I am a phase change whose name contains the word vapor but I do not start with a v.
what is evaporation?
We know that at all times atoms cannot ___________.
What is "be created and destroyed?"
individual > population > community > ecosystem > _________?
What is a biome?
Most producers get energy from the sun using this process!
What is photosynthesis?
These are the three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
This type of rock can be found on Mars.
What is basalt (igneous)?
These are the three plate boundaries.
What are divergent, convergent, and transform?
This rock forms when existing rock is changed by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
A scientists cools water vapor until it becomes liquid then cools it again until it becomes solid. Name the phase changes in order.
What are condensation and freezing?
These two elements react to make table salt.
What are Sodium (Na) and Chlorine (Cl)?
Solar power, wind power, and water power are all examples of _____________.
What are renewable resources?
What are the products of a photosynthesis chemical reaction?
What are glucose and oxygen?
What is solid?
This is the name of the tallest mountain in the entire Solar System! It is on Mars.
What is Olympus Mons?
This was the name for the giant landmass that existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangea?
This natural process describes how rock are continuously transformed from one type to another through melting, cooling, weathering, erosion, pressure.
What is the rock cycle?
When water on the ground disappears without boiling, what phase change is happening?
What is evaporation?
This is how Dmitri Mendelev organized all the elements in the known universe.
What is the periodic table?
Coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium are all considered ______________.
What are nonrenewable resources?
As you move up trophic levels (from producer, to primary consumer, to secondary consumer, etc.) why do energy levels decrease?
What is energy is lost as it transfers between organisms.
This body part found in the digestive system absorbs nutrients from food.
What is the small intestine?
Name at least one geological process that describes the rock formations on Mars.
Possible answers: Volcanism, plate tectonics, and water-related processes.
This graph is used to measure earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
This coarse-grained igneous rock forms when magma cools slowly deep beneath Earth's surface.
What is granite?
A scientist cools water vapor to -10 degrees C, and instead of forming liquid water, solid ice crystals appear instantly. Name the phase change.
What is deposition?
Two reactants producing two products is an example of a _____________________ reaction.
What is double replacement?
What is populations decrease?
Decomposers are important to an ecosystem because they...
What is help recycle nutrients from dead organisms making them available for producers?
This is a famous law: For every action there is an action of equal force in the opposite direction.
What is Newton's third law?