Amplify: Geology on Mars (1.1 & 1.2)

Google Mars is an interactive map that has information about the surface of:

• Mercury

• Mars

• Earth

• Venus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A channel is a long, narrow grove that forms where __________, lava, or other liquid flows.

• oil

• water

• rocks

• sand

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A geologic process is an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as __________ or __________.

• flowing water

• flowing lava

• none of the above

• either flowing water or flowing lava

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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

• group of aliens

• geologic processes

• plants and animals

• land pirates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Landforms can be formed by:

• flowing water

• flowing lava

• none of the above

• both flowing water and flowing lava

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Examples of landforms are:

• mountains and ridges

• canyons and craters

• dunes and plains

• all of the above

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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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

• geologic process

• landform

• channel

• system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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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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