Vocabulary 1
Having the Conditions Necessary to support life.
What is a Habitable?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
What is a model?
Evidence based explanations that start with a statement of understanding.
What is Cl-Ev-R (claim, evidence, reasoning)?
Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets can be thought of as ________. These _________ are made up of interacting spheres that can include the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
What are systems?
Landforms found on Venus that have raised domes and cracks reaching outward in all directions.
What are novae?
Any planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars.
What is a Rocky Planet?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune.
What is a landform?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world
What is a claim?
When landforms on different rocky planets look similar, it is ________ that they may have been formed by the same geologic process.
What is evidence?
The name of the Mars rover that took pictures of evidence in the "x" area of the triangle shaped landform.
What is Curiosity?
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows.
What is a channel?
Information about the natural world that is used to support a claim
What is evidence?
Scientists can use ______ to test their ideas and get evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to observe.
What are models?
This rock is made of smaller pieces of rock pressed and cemented together. It can form near channels formed by flowing water.
What is conglomerate rock?
It can be found on rocky planets and is one of the four common spheres
What is the geosphere?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or lava.
What is a Geologic Process?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
What is reasoning?
Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the _______ _________ that formed them stop happening.
What are geologic processes.
This rock is black in color and looks the same throughout. It is made of cooled lava and can form near channels formed by flowing lava.
What is basalt rock?
Has to do with water and can be found on Earth, one of the four spheres.
What is the Hydrosphere?
All the gases around a planet. It is one of the four spheres.
What is Atmosphere?
An object diagram, or a computer program, helps us understand something by making it simpler.
What is a model?
Models represent the natural processes being investigated in important ways, but they are not exactly the ____.
What is same?
Two prompts we studied, trying to figure out what formed the channel on Mars.
What is flowing lava and flowing water?