Geology on Mars - Learning Goals - Week 3

• A planet is ___ if it can support life. Scientists think a planet needs liquid water and an energy source (such as the sun) to support life.

• Habitable
• Lifeless
• Uninhabitable
• Inhabitable

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• Earth, Mars, and other rocky planets can be thought of as ___. These systems are made up of interacting spheres that can include the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

• oceanic planets
• • systems

• dwarf planets
• gas giants

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Planetary ___ study rocky planets by comparing them to Earth because we know more about Earth than we know about Mercury, Venus, or Mars

• Venus
• geologists

• Mars
• Mercury

• Science assumes that objects and events in natural systems occur in consistent ______ that are understandable through measurement and observation.

• Unpredictable outcomes
• Consistent patterns
• Random occurrences
• Inconsistent patterns

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

• process
• astronomical event
• weathering
• volcano

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• Landforms observed in aerial or satellite images of a rocky planet’s surface provide ___ of geologic processes.

• solutions
• hints
• evidence
• clues

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• Both flowing water and flowing lava can change the shape of the ______.

• mountain
• ocean
• • geosphere

• sky

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• ___ are domed landforms on Venus thought to be created by melted rock rising up from underground.

• • Novae

• Impact craters
• Volcanic eruptions
• Melted ice from glaciers

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• Landforms can provide evidence about the past because they ____ after the geologic processes that formed them stop happening.

• • remain

• destroy
• create
• alter

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• Flowing water and flowing lava can create ___.

• Pumice rocks
• Granite formations
• • channels

• Sandstone structures

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