Martian Metropolis Test Review

What is true about Meg Thacher?

• She is a middle school science teacher

• She is an astronomy instructor at Smith College

• She does not like to help girls who are interested in science

• She has won a Science Nobel Prize

Which of the following would you find in Earth atmosphere?

• None of the above

• a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases

• a mixture of plants, dirt, and water

• a mixture of rock, fluids, and mineral

Informational text can

• can be presented in many forms, such as science writing, news articles, and essays

• Includes evidence to support ideas

• provides factual information

• contains text features to convey information

• all of the above

The author mainly supports her ideas by—

• Providing diagrams

• Using scientific evidence

• Citing opinions of multiple experts

• Providing amusing anecdotes

Advantages and disadvantages are

• presents objects, ideas, and information in groups, or classes, based on common characteristics

• divides ideas about a topic into the positive and negative points

• shows the relationship between events and their causes.

When using Word Gaps in signposts, the authors uses specific quantities and statistics to help support an idea

• True

• False

A Martian day is called a

• Mar

• Day

• Sol

Read this sentence from paragraph 5 of the selection

Even if Mars’s atmosphere were thicker, we wouldn’t be able to breathe it.

The word atmosphere is created from two Greek roots, atmos and sphere. What is the best definition of the word atmosphere as it is used in this sentence?

• Thin vapor

• Atomic planet

• Vaporous ball

• Invisible rock

Well grounded; just

• Stress

• Rely

• Valid

Geothermal means

• relates to the internal heat of the earth

• energy transmitted in the form of waves or particles

• gaseous mass or envelope that surrounds a planet