Vocabulary 1
Something you can easily measure, see, hear, taste, smell, feel.
What is an observation?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
What is a model?
A scientific argument starts with a ___________ about the natural world.
What is a question?
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?
The solid part of Earth from its rocky surface to its iron core.
What is the geosphere?
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
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?
Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury are all considered ___________ ____________.
What are rocky planets?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune.
What is a landform?
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?
The mixture of gases that make up the air surrounding Earth
What is the atmosphere?
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows.
What is a channel?
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?
Having the necessary conditions to support life.
What is habitable?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is geologic process?
On the evidence gradient, this is where you place evidence that is most convincing.
What is the top of the gradient or the darkest color?
Models represent the natural processes being investigated in important ways, but they are not exactly the ____.
What is same?
A caramel colored ingredient found in cola.
What is 4-mel?