Mars Unit Vocabulary Test

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.

use of fast growing crops between harvesting of main crops to ensure bare soil is not exposed for too long

Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the crater Jezero on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX. 9 stands for the 9 Merlin rocket engines

Manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft; has a goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Large space telescope able to see farther than any other telescope at the end of the 20th century.

from the words hydrogen and ocean − is a hypothetical type of habitable planet described as a hot, water-covered planet with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere that is possibly capable of harboring life.

also known as EPIC 201912552 b, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf K2-18, located 124 light-years (38 pc) away from Earth.[4][5] The planet, initially discovered with the Kepler space telescope, is about eight times the mass of Earth, and is thus classified as a super Earth or a Mini-Neptune, and, as well, may be considered a hycean planet.

measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide

A measure of resource use per person, expressed as the number of hectares of productive land that is needed to support a person

The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.

responsibility for conserving and restoring the Earth's resources for future generations

A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study.

Telescope in space designed to detect x-ray emissions from very hot regions of the universe.

the rock formation that is the source of mineral fragments in the soil