Category 1
Something you can easily measure, see, hear, taste, smell, feel.
What is an observation?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
What is a model?
Evidence based explanations that start with a statement of understanding.
What is CER (claim, evidence, reasoning)?
Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets can be thought of as ________. These _________ are made up of interacting spheres that can include the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
What are systems?
The higher the altitude, the _________ the river.
What is, steeper.
A guess or conclusion based on an observation.
What is an inference.
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world
What is a claim?
When landforms on different rocky planets look similar, it is ________ that they may have been formed by the same geologic process.
What is evidence?
What are two ways that a channel is formed?
What is flowing water and flowing lava?
Someone could test how the slope affects how a channel looks by _____________.
What is adjusting the slope?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune.
What is a landform?
Information about the natural world that is used to support a claim
What is evidence?
Scientists can use ______ to test their ideas and get evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to observe.
What are models?
This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts.
What is Geosphere?
How could you use a stream table to test the idea that smaller grains of sand lead to deep, narrow rivers?
What is by putting smaller grains of sand in the stream table.
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows.
What is a channel?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
What is reasoning?
Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the _______ _________ that formed them stop happening.
What are geologic processes.
A scientist lowers the legs of a stream table to make the slope shallower. This makes the channel ___________ and __________.
What is shallower and wider.
Having the necessary conditions to support life.
What is habitable?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is geologic process?
To have a strong and convincing argument, you must have solid _______________.
What is evidence.
Models represent the natural processes being investigated in important ways, but they are not exactly the ____.
What is same?
A caramel colored ingredient found in cola.
What is 4-mel?