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Habitable Conditions What characteristics make a planet suitable for life? Overview Students use an interactive model to explore the zone of liquid water possibility around different star types and determine the characteristics of stars and planets that are most favorable for habitability. Content Created by Directions 1.
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Use this table to identify the factors (and the appropriate levels) that will enable you to design your habitable worlds. Low temperatures cause chemicals to react slowly, which interferes with the reactions necessary for life. Also low temperatures freeze water, making liquid water unavailable.
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Luckily for us Earth is orbiting the Sun in an area known as the habitable or ‘goldilocks’ zone. Not too hot and not too cold, the perfect condition for water, which is essential to life. In this activity we will look at some other stars which all have planets orbiting them too.
To learn about the diversity of extra-solar planets we have discovered to date. This is lesson 4 of a five-lesson unit in which the students plan and execute an interstellar mission. This lesson will focus on alien life, a topic that inspires almost everyone.
Which of their planets would be too hot/cold for life to exist? Compare the solar system diagrams made with the example ones at the end of the information sheet pdf.
Analyze a fictional solar system and select a planet most likely to support life as we know it. Describe what makes a planet habitable.
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While astronomers have discovered dozens of planets orbiting other stars and space probes have explored the edges of our solar system, so far no place in the universe we have discovered is suitable for complex life—except Earth. In this introduction to the course, examine the physical description of our planet, its history, and the unique