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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which is NOT a rocky planet?
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Mercury
Earth
- 2. Multiple Choice
True or False: The four rocky planets are made mostly of solid rock.
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
The Earth's System and other planets are made up of four different spheres. Which is NOT one of the four spheres?
atmosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
helosphere
biosphere
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which image represents the hydrosphere?
- 5. Multiple Choice
True or False: The geosphere is all the liquid and ice on a planet.
True
False
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which Rocky planet is most like Earth?
Venus
Mars
Earth
Mercury
- 7. Multiple Choice
True or False: The sun is the biggest object in our Solar System.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
When examining the possible cause of the channel on Mars which two geological processes were we examining? Choose the best 2 answers.
Flowing lava
Flowing ice
Flowing water
sand storm
- 9. Multiple Choice
True or False: When landforms on different planets look similar it is evidence that they may have been formed by the same geological process.
True
False
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the first part of a scientific argument?
question
claim
evidence
reasoning
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which part of the scientific argument has to do with proposing an answer to a question about the natural world?
question
claim
evidence
reasoning
- 12. Multiple Choice
When we were introduced to Claire and the puddle, what evidence did Claire need to support her claim that the puddle evaporated?
The sun was out
The temperature was high
The sun was out and the temperature was high
What time of day it was that the puddle disappeared
- 13. Multiple Choice
Once a scientist makes a claim they must support it with what?
evidence
evidence and resoning
reasoning
a question
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is one way scientists can study Mars without physically being there?
computers
computer and physical models
travel there
- 15. Multiple Choice
True or False: Scientists can use models to test their ideas and gather evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to observe.
True
False
- 16. Multiple Choice
True or False: Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geological processes that formed them stop happening.
True
False
- 17. Multiple Choice
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel or sand dune
Geological Process
Geosphere
Habit
Landform
- 18. Multiple Choice
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
Claim
System
Model
Scientific Argument
- 19. Multiple Choice
Models recreate a natural process that is being investigated in the exact same way.
True
False
- 20. Multiple Choice
Scientists use models to test their ideas and get evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to share.
True
False
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which one of these was NOT a claim for the Geology on Mars unit?
Flowing water created the channel on Mars
An earthquake created the channel on Mars
Flowing lava created the channel on Mars
- 22. Multiple Choice
Reasoning is the process of making clear how your ________________ supports your ______________.
Evidence, claim
Claim, evidence
Model, Argument
Background knowledge, model
- 23. Multiple Choice
Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets can be thought of us ____________ that are made up of interacting spheres.
Landforms
Channels
Biospheres
Systems
- 24. Multiple Choice
What does a planet need in order to be habitable?
Water
Source of energy
Both A + B
Houses
- 25. Multiple Choice
Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets are made up of spheres that can include...
the geosphere
the megasphere
the atmosphere
the biosphere
- 26. Multiple Choice
What term means having the conditions necessary to support life?
biosphere
landform
habitable
geological process
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhat do we call the solid part of a rocky planet?atmospherebiospheregeospherehydrosphere
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWhat do we call an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava?geologic processgeographic locationgeometric shapegeology class
- 29. Multiple Choice
What are two ways that a channel can be formed?
flowing water, flowing lava
flowering water, cooled lava
showels, picks
television, cable
- 30. Multiple Choice
Mars is a place to look for potential life because
Temperature is reasonably close to Earth due to the sun as an energy source
Water
Both
- 31. Multiple Choice
What geologic process could have formed the channel on Mars?
Claim 1: Flowing water created the channel
Claim 2: Flowing Lava created the channel
- 32. Multiple Choice
A planetary ____________________________ is a scientist who studies the geospheres of planets in our solar system.
Astrologist
Geologist
Biologist
Physiologist
- 33. Multiple Choice
The process in which scientists make clear how their evidence supports a claim is called ____________________________.
Claim
Evidence
Reasoning
- 34. Multiple Choice
When a scientist makes a claim supported by evidence, they are making a scientific ____________________________.
Argument
Reasoning
Discovery
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