Quiz about Geology of Mars Unit Review

Question 1

Which is NOT a rocky planet?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Mars

Answer

Venus

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Earth

Question 2

True or False: The four rocky planets are made mostly of solid rock.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 3

The Earth's System and other planets are made up of four different spheres. Which is NOT one of the four spheres?

Accepted Answer

helosphere

Answer

atmosphere

Answer

hydrosphere

Answer

geosphere

Answer

biosphere

Question 4

Which image represents the hydrosphere?

Accepted Answer

Option A is correct

Answer

B.

Answer

C.

Answer

D.

Question 5

True or False: The geosphere is all the liquid and ice on a planet.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 6

Which Rocky planet is most like Earth?

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Answer

Mercury

Question 7

True or False: The sun is the biggest object in our Solar System.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 8

When examining the possible cause of the channel on Mars which two geological processes were we examining? Choose the best 2 answers.

Accepted Answer

Flowing lava

Accepted Answer

Flowing water

Answer

Flowing ice

Answer

sand storm

Question 9

True or False: When landforms on different planets look similar it is evidence that they may have been formed by the same geological process.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 10

What is the first part of a scientific argument?

Accepted Answer

question

Answer

claim

Answer

evidence

Answer

reasoning

Question 11

Which part of the scientific argument has to do with proposing an answer to a question about the natural world?

Accepted Answer

claim

Answer

question

Answer

evidence

Answer

reasoning

Question 12

When we were introduced to Claire and the puddle, what evidence did Claire need to support her claim that the puddle evaporated?

Accepted Answer

The sun was out and the temperature was high

Answer

The sun was out

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The temperature was high

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What time of day it was that the puddle disappeared

Question 13

True or False: Sol represents a Martian Day (Earth Day) on another planet.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 14

Once a scientist makes a claim they must support it with what?

Accepted Answer

evidence and resoning

Answer

evidence

Answer

reasoning

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a question

Question 15

Active Readers ensure that they understand what they are reading. Which is NOT a guideline used by Active Readers to ensure they understand what they are reading?

Accepted Answer

Read only once and move on

Answer

Pay attention to their own understanding

Answer

Annotate the text

Answer

Examine all visual representations carefully

Answer

After reading discuss with others what was read to better understand it

Question 16

What is one way scientists can study Mars without physically being there?

Accepted Answer

computer and physical models

Answer

computers

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travel there

Question 17

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.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 19

What was formed in the Stream Table and Flowing Lava Models?

Accepted Answer

channels

Answer

bridges

Answer

mountains

Answer

craters

Question 20

What sphere did the sand in the Stream Table Model represent?

Accepted Answer

geosphere

Answer

atmosphere

Answer

biosphere

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hydrosphere

Question 21

True or False: A higher elevation will create a deeper channel.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 22

True or False: The water in the Stream Table Model represented the atmosphere.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 23

Gerya was a scientist that created a computer model to test a type of landform on Venus. What was the landform he was testing?

Accepted Answer

novae

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mountain

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hills

Answer

beaches

Question 24

What is the Evidence gradient used for?

Accepted Answer

organize and evaluate evidence

Answer

to list evidence in no particular order

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assign evidence

Answer

evaluate evidence

Question 25

What did scientists discover at the end of the channel?

Accepted Answer

a triangular-shaped landform

Answer

a lake

Answer

crater

Answer

sand

Question 26

True or False: The triangular shaped landform is made of rock that form over time and it is called an alluvial fan.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 27

When flowing water flows down a hill it carries what with it?

Accepted Answer

small rocks

Answer

plants

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air

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people

Question 28

When lava cools it turns into what type of rock?

Accepted Answer

black

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white

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lavendar

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orange

Question 29

What did the Curiosity Rover find near the triangular-shaped landform, at the end of the channel on Mars?

Accepted Answer

rock

Answer

pile of sand

Answer

crater

Answer

fungus

Question 30

True of False: Mars has a source of energy in the form of the Sun.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 31

True or False: The Reasoning Tool is used to help you pull apart each idea you want to include in your argument, and make sure they connect to your evidence.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 32

If liquid water did form the channel on Mars what does that mean about the past habitability of Mars?

Accepted Answer

It could have been habitable

Answer

Nothing

Answer

There is no way anything once lived there

Answer

It could NOT have been habitable

Question 33

Why did some people think that there was evidence of intelligent life on Mars?

Accepted Answer

they believed they saw canals

Answer

the channels

Answer

the craters

Answer

the rocks

Question 34

Which is NOT a way we have explored Mars?

Accepted Answer

physical contact on the planet

Answer

computer and physical models

Answer

satellite images

Answer

telescopes

Answer

rovers

Question 35

After all the evidence we examined in this unit, on what formed the channel on Mars, what has the evidence most supported in what most likely formed the channel on Mars?

Accepted Answer

flowing water

Answer

flowing lava

Answer

sand storm

Answer

sonic boom

Geology of Mars Unit Review

35 questions

Which is NOT a rocky planet?

True or False: The four rocky planets are made mostly of solid rock.

The Earth's System and other planets are made up of four different spheres. Which is NOT one of the four spheres?

Which image represents the hydrosphere?

True or False: The geosphere is all the liquid and ice on a planet.

Which Rocky planet is most like Earth?

True or False: The sun is the biggest object in our Solar System.

When examining the possible cause of the channel on Mars which two geological processes were we examining? Choose the best 2 answers.

True or False: When landforms on different planets look similar it is evidence that they may have been formed by the same geological process.

What is the first part of a scientific argument?

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