Using Models Quiz

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

• model

• scale

• system

• channel

In lesson 2.1, we read an article about a scientist that used a computer model to study landforms that were formed on which planet?

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Mercury

The channel on Mars could be formed by these two geological processes. (Choose 2)

• flowing water

• flowing lava

• wind

• aliens

Why do scientists use models? (Choose 3)

• smaller than real thing

• easier than going to the real place

• cheaper

• hard to analyze

• more expensive

Which geologic process were we NOT able to make a model of in class?

• flowing lava

• flowing water

• erosion

________________________ can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geological processes that formed them stop happening.

• landforms

• models

• evidence

• systems

____________________ represent the natural processes being investigated in important ways, but they are not exactly the same.

• Models

• Channels

• Landforms

• Evidence

During the lab with sand and water , we tried to make a model of the _____ on Mars.

• channel

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

• landforms