Mars –
Our New Home?
Think carefully about each question, and use evidence from the texts to support your conclusions. Write your answers in full sentences, and use explanations and examples where needed.
Surface Level: Find the Answer in the Text
- What are some similarities between Earth and Mars?
They both have seasons and mountains there quite similar. |
- Humans would find it challenging to live on Mars without what?
Food,shelter,Water. And even more all thats there is sand so it could easily get in ur eyes! |
- What are the 3 things that the article says are making our planet Earth unlivable?
Pollution, Climate change, Overuse of natural uses. |
Inference: Use Clues from the Text to Think of an Answer
- Explain in your own words why scientists are exploring the possibility of a move to Mars?
People wanna discover new things, Mars is just like earth they have no difference so if we moved there nothing would happen. |
- What are some challenges that humans would face if there was a move to Mars?
People would have to find shelter, There isn’t any water there. Nor is there food there. |
- Why do you think plants will be so important to the terraforming of Mars?
The large amount of carbon dioxide could be used by those planets. |
Unfamiliar Words: Clarifying Language that may cause Misunderstanding
Word | Sentence from the text | Definition |
Enthusiast | has captured the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike | A person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject. |
Potential | Mars holds the potential for us to explore and perhaps even call it our new home someday | Having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future. |
Abundant | While Earth is beautiful and abundant, we must face the reality that our actions are harming our planet. Pollution, | Existing or available in large quantities plentiful. |
Generate | create sustainable habitats, and generate the resources necessary for survival. | To produce or create something new. |
Global Inferencing: Making Connections between the Text and the Wider World
Would you want to be one of the first people living on Mars?
Come up with solid reasons for your choice, and provide evidence, and examples to support your reasons.
Maybe not one of the first people, I’m not sure if I can last because there’s no shelter there or food. Food that I brang won’t last me a day, nor will my water. It takes about 7 months,300 million miles, ( 480 million kilometres ) to get there. My food will be gone already. Which is one way of me not surviving. I don’t think I would ever want to move to mars earth is much better. Mars has desserts so sand can easily get into your eyes. There’s not much there that we have here so what’s the difference? |
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