Vocabulary - Spheres
All the living organisms on a planet
Biosphere
Having the necessary conditions to support life.
Habitable
Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets can be thought of as ________. It is made up of interacting spheres that can include the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
System
The name of the Mars rover that took pictures of evidence in the "x" area of the triangle shaped landform.
Curiosity
All the liquid water and solid water on a planet
Hydrosphere
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or another liquid flows
Channel
When landforms on different rocky planets look similar, it is ________ that they may have been formed by the same geologic process.
Evidence
A caramel colored ingredient found in cola.
4-mel
The gases that surround a planet
Atmosphere
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
Model
Scientists can use ______ to test their ideas and get evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to observe.
models
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.
Basalt
The solid part of a planet - land
Geosphere
During this unit on Mars, you have been acting like this type of scientist who studies the geospheres of planets in our solar system.
Planetary Geologist
Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the _______________ _______________ that formed them stops.
Geologic Process
This rock is made of smaller pieces of rock pressed and cemented together. It can form near channels formed by flowing water.
Conglomerate Rocks
These are the 4 Rocky Planets in our solar system
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
A set of interacting parts that work together
System
A scientific argument has these 3 parts.
Claim
Evidence
Reasoning (why it matters)
Landforms found on Venus that have raised domes and cracks reaching outward in all directions.
Novae