Comparing
Earth and Rocky Planets
Earth and Rocky Planets
Water and Energy have been described as the reason why planets might be considered as this
What is habitable?
Gerya created an example of this to test his idea about novae formation on Venus
What is a model?
This includes all of the living things on a planet. Examples include mammals, birds, fish, plants, and bacteria.
What is the biosphere?
This is the first step in a scientific argument
What is a question?
Scientists use these to help them understand something that took many years to form, or is too far away to directly observe.
What are models?
These planets have solid surfaces that have been changed over time
This was used because of its thick consistency and what happens when it cools to model how lava moves
What is wax?
What is sediment?
In order to organize the information gathered in an investigation, scholars can use this tool to determine which piece of information is the most or least convincing
What is the Evidence Gradient Tool?
These are three states of matter
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
This planet has frozen water at its poles and it is said to have a system that is most like Earth's
What is Mars?
This sphere refers to the water that is found on a planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
At the base of flowing water channels sediments spread out to form this kind of landform
What is an alluvial fan?
This is the method that organizes scientific argumentation
What is C.E.R.?
This sphere contains the mixture of gases that surround a planet.
What is the atmosphere?
These scientists have allowed us to use our knowledge about Earth to study if other planets were once habitable
What are Planetary geologists?
A bucket of water with a tube and the tray of sand represented this in a geologic process
What are flowing water and the geosphere?
This is a set of interacting parts that form a complex "whole."
What is a system?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim.
What is a reasoning?
The rocky planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
The interactions between these continue to the change of a planet's surface shape
What are spheres?
A long, narrow groove called this leaves evidence of a planet's past
What is a channel?
This would be an indication of habitability on another planet.
What is frozen or liquid water?
This sentence is a proposed answer to the investigation question for a scientific argument
What is a claim?
This is the main source of energy in our solar system
What is the Sun?