Explore Mars' Geology and Scientific Concepts

A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole

• System

• Model

• Reasoning

• Evidence

How could you test ideas about how the slope affects how the channel looks using this stream table?

• Adjust the legs

• Use different amounts of sand

• Different amounts of water

• Using different material other than sand

What term (word) represents the solid part of a rocky planet?

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

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

• Geologic Process

• Channel

• Rocky Planet

• Landform

A proposed answer to a question about the natural world

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

• Model

True or False: Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geological processes that formed them stop happening.

• True

• False

Which is NOT a rocky planet?

• Mars

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Earth

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

• Model

• Geologic Process

• System

• Claim

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

• Landform

• Geologic Process

• Channel

• Rocky Planet

Having conditions necessary to support life

• Model

• Landform

• Habitable

• Geologic Process