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 these planets
What are rocky planets?
Mountains
What is the geosphere?
The type of observation that describes "stinky, dirty dog"
What are Qualitative?
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.
What is the same geologic process?
Ice caps
What is the hydrosphere?
This is what happened to the flowing water model when we increased the slope.
What is become more straight?
having the conditions necessary to support life
Computer programs are examples of what scientists use to test their ideas about the natural world that are difficult to observe.
What is a model?
Plants
What is biosphere?
This is what was used to take a picture of the rock on Mars
What is a rover?
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.
What are landforms?
Carbon Dioxide
What is the atmosphere?
We see something is extremely cute and cuddly. "It is a cat" is an example of this.
What is an inference?
an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is geologic process?
Something that represents the natural processes being investigated but they are not exactly the same.
What are models?
The channel on Mars
These two things often are left out of models of our solar system because the solar system is too large.
What is the size of planets and the distance between them?