Quiz on Mars Exploration

What are the key details in “Red Rover”?

• Scientists sent rovers to Mars; rovers sent back images; scientists learned about the surface of Mars

• Mars has many rocks on its surface; it has useful facts; rovers are machines

• Mars and Earth have nothing in common; Mars never had water

What is the main idea of paragraph four?

• It would be difficult to send people to Mars with enough supplies.

• Special plants grow on Mars.

• Rovers help us learn about Mars.

Why would researchers want to go to Mars? (paragraph 4)

• If researchers go there, they can learn more about the Red Planet.

• If researchers go there, they can invent special plants that would survive in the desert.

• If researchers go there, they can look for the Mars rovers.

How are the key details from the first three questions connected?

• They all give information about the climate on Mars.

• They all give information about what scientists are doing to learn about Mars.

What is the main idea of the whole passage?

• People may one day live on Mars.

• Mars is the fourth planet from the sun.

• Scientists want to learn as much as possible about Mars.

Using the suffix, what is the meaning of the word icy?

• Icy means Mars is without ice.

• Icy means Mars is in a way that is like ice.

• Icy means Mars is full of ice.

Using the suffix, what is the meaning of the word rocky?

• Rocky means the surface of Mars is in a way that is like rocks.

• Rocky means the surface of Mars is full of rocks.

• Rocky means the surface of Mars is able to be a rock.

When did the rover first land on Mars? What did they learn from the rover? Use details from the text to support your answer.

What was the goal of "Curiosity"?

• the video shows water on Mars

• to have fun remote controlling a vehicle from Earth

• to determine if Mars was ever able to support microbial life

• there are no craters on Mars

Both rovers far outlived their planned missions of _______ Martian solar days.

• 200

• 90

• 10

• 365