Vocabulary
an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
What is a model?
Geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere are all interacting parts of systems for this planet.
Earth
What is the solid part of a rocky planet?
What is the geosphere?
Our solar system has two types of planets, what are they?
Rocky and Gas Giants
A circle of moons separate the inner and outer planets of our solar system.
False, Asteroid belt
any planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars
What is a rocky planet?
When landforms on different rocky planets look similar, it is evidence of this.
They could have been formed by the same geologic process.
What is all the liquid water and solid water (ice) on a planet?
What is the hydrosphere?
What are the four rocky planets of our solar system? In order?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Mars has numerous rovers on its surface.
True
having the conditions necessary to support life
Something that represents the natural processes being investigated but they are not exactly the same.
Models
What is all the living things on a planet?
Biosphere
Which rocky planet has the largest volcano in our solar system?
Mars
Opportunity was the rover that took the picture of the rock found at the base of the channel on Mars.
False, Curiosity
a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
What is a landform?
These provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic processes that formed stopped happening.
Landforms
What is the mixture of gases surrounding a planet?
Atmosphere?
Strange landforms scattered around Venus
What are novae?
Perseverance was the first rover to land on Mars.
False, it was the most recent rover to land on Mars.
an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is geologic process?
What is an example of a type of model scientists use to test their ideas about the natural world that are difficult to observe.
Computer simulations or physical models
Which rocky planet in our solar system has the thickest atmosphere?
What is the Venus?
What is the hottest planet in our solar system and why?
Venus because of its distance from the sun and its thick atmosphere.
Ingenuity is the first rotocopter than can fly like a drone on Mars.
True