Discovering Mars Vocabulary

Question 1

Scientists who study the sun, stars, and planets

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Astronomers

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A device used to view things that are far away

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Telescope

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Hollow areas or holes, often shaped like a bowl

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Craters

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The sun and the planets and other bodies that orbit it

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Solar system

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Related to outer space

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Cosmic

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The pull of Earth on an object

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Gravity

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To provide what is needed to live

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Sustain

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The mixture of gasses around a planet

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Atmosphere

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Something that is shaped like a ball

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Sphere

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The points on which a planet rotates

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Poles

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When someone comes to a conclusion, they have decided something’s is true after thinking about it carefully

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Conclusions

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The area nearby

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Range

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Over the place by force

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Conquest

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The widest part of something that is shaped like a sercle

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Diameter

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Enormous; extremely larg

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Mammoth

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The lowest or bottom part of something

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Base

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Unusually large

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Colossal

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A hole snapped like a bowl

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Basin

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Having new ideas or techniques

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Advance

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Related to outer space

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Cosmic

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Beams of light or energy

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Rays

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Relating to electromagnetic

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Ultraviolet

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Tiny organisms that are visible only with a microscope

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Microbes

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Moving or traveling from one place to another

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Roving

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Spacecrafts that travel frequently from one place to another

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Shuttles

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Goods carried or shipped

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Cargo

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The amount matter something contains

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Mass

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A plain for action

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Scheme

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Land that is always frozen

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Permafrost

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To provide what is needed to live

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Sustain

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A pure form of air in Earth's atmosphere

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Ozone

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The slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces is called

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Weathering

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A rock is broken apart by____________weathering if the rock type dose not change.

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Philical

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If a rock contains iron, air, and water it can react with the iron through______________and from dust.

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Chemical weathering

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The weathering and removal of rock from one place to another is called

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Erosion

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Erosion can be caused by glaciers, wind moving water, and

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Gravity

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When the Colorado river eroded the land around the river in Arizona, the _________ __________ was formed.

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Grand Canyon

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Glaciers form in very cold places as thick ________ of ice.

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Sheets

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As the weight of the overlaying ice increases, the glacier begins to __________.

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Flow

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Deposits left behind by a glacier are called___________and___________.

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Glacial till and glacial deibre

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The mounds that form where till builds up are called

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Moraines

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Most processes change land slowly, but people can make_________changes.

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Faster

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People change the land by____________it to get minerals, metals, or fuel.

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Mining

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Erosion moves weathered rock from one place to another through ______________and______________

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Wind and water

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Huge masses of ice called

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Glaciers

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Moving glaciers picks up rocks, gravel, and sand and deposit them as glacial till and

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Moraines