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.

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

• 200

• 90

• 10

• 365

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