Geology on Mars: Unit Test

What were we researching that could have formed the channel on Mars?

• water and mud

• flowing water and flowing lava

• someone who shoveled the channel

• all of the above

What makes a planet a "rocky" planet?

• any planet with a solid surface

• a planet that listens to rock music

• a planet with a lot of rocks

• any of the 4 planets farthest away from the sun

An evidence gradient will help you rank your evidence from least convincing to most convincing.

• True

• False

What can scientists use to test their ideas and get evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to observe?

• claims

• models

• evidence

• planets

Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic process that formed them stop happening.

• true

• false

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

• channel

• model

• geologic process

• atmosphere

Which of the following are an example of a system?

• the human body

• a car engine

• Earth's spheres

• all of the above

What starts with a question about the natural world?

• model

• evidence

• claim

• scientific argument

The two claims that we have been investigating are that flowing water or flowing lava could have formed the channel on Mars.

• True

• False

If a planet is considered habitable, what would that mean?

• We could form new habits there.

• It would have the conditions necessary to support life.

• It would NOT be able to support life.

• Only humans could live there, nothing else.