Activity 2.1 Write the following questions in your Jason journal:

1. Big Question: How do scientists study Martian geology?* Focus Questions:1. How are the geological features on Earth and Mars similar and different?2. How are the geological processes on Earth and Mars similar and different? Activity 2.1 Write the following questions in your Jason journal:

2. Using your Jason workbook, write and define the following vocabulary terms:

3. Using complete sentences, answer the following in your journal: List tools that scientists use to study Earth’s geology. Do you think scientists could use these same tools to study Martian geology? Explain.

4. Using complete sentences, answer the following statement in your journal: If you won a free trip to study one geological feature on Earth, what feature would you choose? Why? Where would you travel to study your chosen feature? Describe the feature, then describe what the same feature might look like on Mars.

5. Using complete sentences, answer the following in your Jason journal: Martian Mystery Martian meteorites are rocks that left the surface of Mars, traveled in space for several million years, and finally landed at various sites on Earth. What could have caused these rocks to leave the Martian surface in the first place?

6. Activity 2.1 Questions Using complete sentences, answer the questions in your journal for Activity 2.1

7. Activity 2.2Write the following in your Jason journal: • Big Question: How do impact craters form? • Focus Questions: 1. How do scientists study impact craters on Earth and Mars? 2. What do scientists learn by studying impact craters?

8. Create, label, and define an illustration using the following vocabulary terms located on page 61: • impactors • ejecta • rim

9. Answer the following in your Jason journal: What are the differences between meteroids, meteors, meteorites, and impactors?

10. Activity 2.2 Questions Using complete sentences, answer the questions in your journal for Activity 2.2

11. Activity 2.3Write the following in your journal: • Big Question: What can scientists learn by studying Martian meteorites? • Focus Questions: 1. What is a Martian meteorite? 2. How do scientists study Martian meteorites?

12. Using your Jason textbook, copy and define the following vocabulary terms: • radiation • emissivity • wavelength • micron • infrared radiation • Martian meteorites • spectrum • spectrometer

13. Journal entry: Why do you think is it much less common to see a meteorite fall than to find a meteorite that has already fallen?

14. Activity 2.3 Questions Using complete sentences, answer the questions in your journal for Activity 2.3

15. Activity 2.4Write the following in your journal: • Big Question How does soil on Earth compare to soil on Mars? • Focus Question: Why do scientists study soil?

16. Answer the following question in complete sentences: Martian Mystery Why is Mars called the red planet?

17. Using your Jason textbook, examine the illustration on page 76 and answer the following in complete sentences: • Select an organism from the illustration and describe how it depends on soil (for a home, for safety, for food, etc.) • Describe how your chosen organism is connected to other organisms in the illustration. • What would happen to your organism if the soil in the illustration was contaminated?

18. Answer the following in your Jason journal: Brainstorm all the ways you use soil either directly or indirectly.