Vocabulary 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 Cl-Ev-R (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?
Landforms found on Venus that have raised domes and cracks reaching outward in all directions.
What are novae?
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?
The name of the Mars rover that took pictures of evidence in the "x" area of the triangle shaped landform.
What is Curiosity?
An observation using your senses.
What is qualitative observation.
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 rock is made of smaller pieces of rock pressed and cemented together. It can form near channels formed by flowing
Water
An observation made by counting or using instruments.
What is quantitative observation?
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.
This rock is black in color and looks the same throughout. This kind of triangular formation is formed by flowing
Lava
A scientist who studies the geospheres of planets
Planetary Geologist
A scientific claim and by proven or disproved by
Evidence
A scientific claim is true if it is supported by enough
Evidence
A round half circle forming the top or roof of something
Dome