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Lesson 2.1 Earth As The Only Habitable Planet

The document discusses the key requirements for a planet to be habitable for life. Specifically, it notes that the planet must 1) orbit a star that can sustain life for long enough, and 2) exist within the star's habitable zone where water can remain liquid. Earth meets these criteria by having the right distance from the Sun, a protective atmosphere and magnetic field, and ingredients like water and carbon to support life. While other planets like Venus and Mars share some similarities with Earth, only Earth currently has life due to the presence of liquid water and oxygen. The document also provides examples of recent space explorations that have increased understanding of celestial bodies in our solar system.

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Lesson 2.1 Earth As The Only Habitable Planet

The document discusses the key requirements for a planet to be habitable for life. Specifically, it notes that the planet must 1) orbit a star that can sustain life for long enough, and 2) exist within the star's habitable zone where water can remain liquid. Earth meets these criteria by having the right distance from the Sun, a protective atmosphere and magnetic field, and ingredients like water and carbon to support life. While other planets like Venus and Mars share some similarities with Earth, only Earth currently has life due to the presence of liquid water and oxygen. The document also provides examples of recent space explorations that have increased understanding of celestial bodies in our solar system.

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EARTH AS THE ONLY HABITABLE

PLANET
MS. ROSIE J. SIALANA
DOWN
1. The hotness or coldness of the object.
2. Slowed down earth’s rotation in 24 hrs.
3. Reproduction method from male and female
parents
5. Green pigments in plants
6. Also called producers
8. Basic unit of life.

ACROSS
4. Single-celled organisms
7. Ultimate source of energy
9. Creating new generations of species.
10. 71 % of the Earth
There are two major
requirements for a planet
to become habitable.

1. The star should survive


long enough for its
planet to develop life.
2. The planet should exist
in a region where water
could remain liquid.
The star should survive long
enough for its planet to
develop life. • Not too young.
• Not too big.
• Not too small.
• Not too violent.
• Not too rich and
not too poor.
• Not too crowded.
Being in the Goldilocks
Zone, indicates that the
distance of Earth from
the sun such that the
amount of energy
received is just enough to
make the temperature of
Earth neither too hot nor
The planet should exist in a too cold.
region where water could remain
liquid.
Different stars have
different Goldilocks Zon
or habitable zones. Blu
stars, farther habitable
zones. Red stars have clo
habitable zones.
Aside from their distance, planets may also have other features that are
not suitable for life.
The Jovian planets are also called the gas giants.
HABITABLE EARTH

• It has the right distance from the


sun.
• It is protected from harmful solar
radiation by its magnetic field.
• It is kept warm by an insulating
atmosphere.
• It has the right amount of
ingredients for life, including water
and carbon.
Earth is different from other planets in a way that it
is the only planet with liquid water on the surface.

1. Earth, Venus, and Mars may have similarities:


• They are all terrestrial planets, made of solid rocks
and silicates;
• They all have an atmosphere;
• They all almost have the same time to rotate on their
axes;
• Earth and Mars both have water;
• They all have carbon dioxide;
• All have landforms.

2. Earth, Venus, and Mars have differences.


• Venus has no water;
• Venus and Mars don’t have oxygen;
• Earth has life forms.
SOLAR SYSTEM
EXPLORATIONS
These space explorations have helped astronomers
dramatically increase their knowledge and discoveries
regarding celestial bodies.
Some are recent and ongoing
space explorations
•March 18, 2011 – First spacecraft to orbit Mercury
(NASA’s MESSENGER)
•July 16, 2011 – First spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
(NASA’s Dawn)
•August 6, 2012 – Curiosity rover lands on Mars (NASA’s
Curiosity Rover)
•August 25, 2012 – First humanmade spacecraft in
interstellar space. (NASA’s Voyager 1)
•August 6, 2014 - First spacecraft to orbit a comet
(European Space Agency’s Rosetta Space Probe)
•July 14, 2015 – New Horizons Mission (NASA’s New
Horizons)
A dwarf planet is a celestial body
that:
a. Is in orbit around the sun;
A planet is a celestial body that: b. Has sufficient mass for its self-
a. is an orbit around the sun; gravity to overcome rigid body
b. Has sufficient mass for its self- forces so that it assumes a
gravity to overcome rigid body nearly round shape;
forces so that it assumes a
nearly round shape; and Small solar system bodies are all
c. Has cleared the neighborhood objects except satellites orbiting
around its orbit. around the sun. These currently
include asteroids, trans-
Neptunian Objects or TNOs
(objects orbiting beyond
c. Has not cleared the Neptune), comets, and other small
neighborhood around its orbit; celestial bodies.
and
d. Is not a satellite.

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