Vocabulary
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
What is system?
The mixture of all gasses surrounding a planet
What is the atmosphere?
All the living things on a planet
What is the boisphere?
The solid part of a rocky planet
What is the geosphere?
All the liquid water and ice on a planet
What is the hydrosphere?
Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against(refute) a claim
What is evidence?
and planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars
What is a rocky planet.
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world
What is a claim?
TO notice how two or more things are alike or different
What is compare?
Having the conditions necessary to support life
What is habitable?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.
What is a model?
mass/volume =
What is density?
Volcanoes are located here
What is the Ring of Fire
Earthquakes are caused because of ___
What is tectonic plates?
A scientist who studies the geospheres of planets in our solar system
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
What is reasoning?
when a continental plate slides on top of a oceanic plate
What is subduction?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
What is a landform?
If the mass is 555 grams; the volume is 111 cubic meters, what is the density?
What is 5 grams centimeters cubed?
A claim supported by evidence
What is a scientific arguement?
A substance with mass and takes up space by having volume
What is matter?
What is 40,000?
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows
What is a channel?
There are __ volcanoes on the Ring of Fire
What is 452?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is a geologic process?