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?
| The water on mars is frozen and the earth also has water and they also have polar caps |
- Humans would find it challenging to live on Mars without what?
| Oxygen,food and H2O |
- What are the 3 things that the article says are making our planet Earth unlivable?
| Pollution greenhouse gases. |
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?
| Because the habitat that earth has is becoming unlivable like pollution or global warming. |
- What are some challenges that humans would face if there was a move to Mars?
| Lack of oxygen and food as well as the radiation heavily damaging our skin and organs |
- Why do you think plants will be so important to the terraforming of Mars?
| Due to its rough area and lack of human necessities. |
Unfamiliar Words: Clarifying Language that may cause Misunderstanding
| Word | Sentence from the text | Definition |
| Enthusiast | Imagine a world far away, where red deserts stretch as far as the eye can see. A planet called Mars, located 342 million kilometres away from Earth, has captured the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. | Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval. |
| Potential | Mars: Our Potential Future Home? | 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. | Having a lot of things such as resources |
| Generate | We would need to find ways to grow food, create sustainable habitats, and generate the resources necessary for survival. | Produce or create. |
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.
| No I would not because I like earth and it has a very high rate of me dying from things like lack of oxygen and water and also the radiation from Mars eating away at my intestines and guts killing me but it would also speed up my aging process letting me live less and making me look older.
That is why i don’t want to leave earth |