Vocabulary
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows
What is a channel?
Having the conditions necessary to support life
What is habitable?
All the liquid water and solid water (ice) on a planet
What is the Hydrosphere?
Name at least 2 rocky planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
Comparing landforms on different rocky planets doesn’t provide convincing evidence that similar geologic process formed the landforms.
What is False?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world
What is a claim?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
What is a landform?
All the living things on a planet
What is the Biosphere?
What is one landform that exists on Mars that we also have on Earth?
Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic processes that formed them stop happening.
What is True?
Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim
What is evidence?
Any planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars
What is a Rocky Planet?
The solid part of a rocky planet; the landforms on a rocky planet
What is the Geosphere?
Mars has the largest _______ in the solar system.
What is a volcano?
An argument only needs evidence in order to be convincing.
What is False?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
What is a model?
A claim supported by evidence
What is a Scientific Argument?
The mixture of gases surrounding a planet
What is the Atmosphere?
Are rocky planets closer to the sun or further from the sun than the gaseous planets?
What is closer?
Evidence can support or go against a claim.
What is True?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is a Geologic Process?
A scientist who studies the geospheres of planets in our solar system
What is a Planetary Geologist?
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
What is a system?
Which rocky planet is closest to the sun?
What is Mercury?
What two things does an argument need to be convincing?
What is Evidence and reasoning?