Amplify Geology on Mars Quiz

According to Dr. Edgar, a planetary geologist, a planet needs two things to be habitable. What are they?

• frozen water and liquid water

• liquid water and plants

• soil and oxygen

• liquid water and an energy source

A ____________ is a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.

• geologic process

• landform

• channel

• system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which of the following is a rocky planet?

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Uranus

• Neptune

A planet is __________ if it can support life.

• rocky

• habitable

• comfortable

• gaseous

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• Geological Process

• Geosphere

• Habit

• Landform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When landforms on different rocky planets looks similar, it is evidence that they may have been formed by the same geologic process.

• True

• False

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

• habitable

• geologic process

• channel

• evidence

A proposed answer to a question about the natural world

• landform

• evidence

• habitable

• claim

Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim.

• evidence

• claim

• scientific areguemnt

• compare

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• reasoning

• rocky planet

• model

• system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-2