Geology on Mars Chapter 2

When landforms on different rocky planets look similar, it is evidence that they may have...

• been formed by different geologic processes.

• been formed by life on that planet.

• been formed by the same geologic process.

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Scientists can use models to...

• show facts that will never change in world.

• draw a copy of something we can see around us.

• test their ideas about the natural world

• get evidence about processes that are difficult to observe.

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Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic process that formed them stop happening.

• True

• False

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Models perfectly represent the natural processes being investigated.

• True

• False

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The word HABITABLE means...

• a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.

• having the condition necessary to support life.

• a planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars.

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A geological process is an event or series of events that causes changes to the geosphere. Which of the following are geological processes:

• flowing water

• flowing ideas

• flowing lava

• making a model

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Which of the following are true.

• Reasoning is the process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim.

• Evidence is information about the natural world that is used to support or go against a claim.

• Compare is to notice only 2 things are different.

• Claim is a proposed answer to a question about the natural world.

Define the word MODEL

• An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.

• a scientist who studies the geospheres of planets in our solar system.

• any planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars.

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A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows

• channel

• canyon

• river

• stream

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Define the word LANDFORM.

• the process of making clear how evidence supports your claim

• a scientist who studies the geospheres of planets in our solar system

• an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava

• a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune

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