Landforms
Water on Mars
Vocabulary
Weathering vs Erosion
Misc.
100
A "V shaped valley eroded away by a river."
What is a canyon?
100
Here you will find boulders, cobbles and pebbles that suggest a Martian flood.
What is Ares Vallis?
100
Loose materials (sand, shells, and minerals).
What is sediment?
100
This type of acid is formed from snow melt and rain fall.
What is carbonic acid?
100
Sandbars got smaller, vegetation began to grow into the river channel, debris fans built up, and habitat for native fish declined.
What is the effect of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Grand Canyon?
200
A high, uplifted area with steep slopes.
What is a mountain?
200
Couch, Scooby Doo, and Yoga.
What are the names of the rocks the Pathfinder found?
200
Small particles that stick together through pressure.
What is compaction?
200
The breaking off of rock.
What is weathering?
200
Low areas of land surrounded by higher areas of land where water flows and sediments are often deposited.
What is a basin?
300
A low area between hills and mountains, often where a river flows.
What is a valley?
300
This is a chemical reaction that happens on both Earth and Mars and suggests the presence of water.
What is oxidation?
300
The natural material in which something is embedded.
What is a matrix?
300
The movement and further breaking down of rock particles.
What is erosion?
300
This large, and nearly level area of land that has been uplifted above its surrounding areas is located in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
400
A nearly area that has been uplifted.
What is a plateau?
400
A very magnetic iron ore.
What is Maghemite?
400
Large particles glued together by a matrix.
What is cementation?
400
Ice wedging is an example of this.
What is weathering?
400
The two types of weathering. Examples include:frost wedging, abrasion, solution, oxidation.
What are physical and chemical weathering?
500
A fan shaped deposit at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
500
This prob sent back data that helped scientists support the idea that Mars was once a watery planet.
What is Mars Pathfinder?
500
The three categories in which we describe sedimentary rocks.
What is detrital, chemical and organic?
500
A mountain stream moving rock particles down a valley is an example of this.
What is erosion?
500
The process of matching up rock layers from different locations.
What is correlation?
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