Geology on Mars
Information that is used to support or refute a claim.
The material that makes up Earth's Outer Layer.
What is hard, solid rock.
Rocks are classified based on______.
What is how they form.
The molecules move in place in this phase.
What is a solid.
The only place to have liquid water in the universe.
What is Earth.
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim.
What is Reasoning.
The soft, solid layer of rock underneath the plates.
What is the mantle.
What is weathering.
The molecules move around each other in this phase.
What is a liquid.
The type of rock that is formed through heat and pressure due to plate motion.
What is metamorphic rock.
A proposed answer to a question.
What is a claim.
Plate Boundaries that move away from each other.
What is Divergent Plate Boundary.
The two materials that make up all types of rock.
What is sediment and magma.
When transferring energy out of a substance the molecules speed __________.
What is decreases.
According to the second law of thermodynamics heat always flows from _______ to ______.
What is hot to cold.
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.
What is a model.
One plate goes underneath the other plate and sinks into the soft, solid mantle.
What is Convergent Plate Boundary.
The process that causes uplift and subduction.
What is plate motion.
What is decreases.
A macro-scale change can be explained by_______.
What is a molecular scale change.
The two requirements for life on another planet.
What is energy and liquid water.
Solid rock from the mantle rises and hardens, adding new solid rock to the edges of the plate.
What is Divergent Plate Boundary.
The energy source that causes weathering.
What is the sun.
Transferring energy into a substance causes the ______, _______, & ________ in that substance to change.
What is temperature, (kinetic) energy, and freedom of movement.
This law states that energy can't be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy.