Vocabulary
Having the necessary conditions to support life.
What is habitable?
Made of different gases like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide
What is atmosphere?
A claim supported by evidence
What is a scientific argument
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 only planet to have all four active spheres?
What is Earth?
Scientist who studies the geosphere of planets in our solar system
What is a planetary geologist?
All living things
What is biosphere?
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?
Claire saw a puddle in the morning and later observed it was no longer there when she left school
What is evaporation?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune.
What is a landform?
Bodies of water
What is hydrosphere?
Information about the natural world that is used to support a claim
What is evidence?
Rocky Planets
The name of the Mars rover that took a picture of the "Mystery Object" on Mars
Who is Opportunity
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows.
What is a channel?
The land, surface, dirt, landforms
What is geosphere?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
What is reasoning?
The scientist currently on Mars
What is a rover?
The mystery object on the surface of Mars
What is a rock?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava
What is geologic process?
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
The strategy being used to write a scientific argument
What is RACE?
Necessary conditions to support life
What are liquid water and energy source?
A planetary geologist who gathers information about rock on Earth and compares them to rocks found in Mars
Who is Dr. Lauren Edgar?