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- 1. Multiple Choice
What does most every living thing need to survive?
Steam
Ice
Plasma
Liquid water
- 2. Multiple Choice
What happens if a planet is too hot?
The water will be nice and warm
The water will boil away
The water will be too cold
The water will freeze and make ice
- 3. Multiple Choice
What happens if a planet is too cold?
The water will be nice and warm
The water will be cold
The water will boils away
It will be like a giant ball of ice
- 4. Multiple Choice
If a planet is discovered to be in the habitable zone does that mean it has life?
Yes
No
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT criteria to be considered a viable candidate.
Revolves around a Sun-like star
Rotates counter-clockwise
Located in a habitable zone
Similar size to Earth
- 6. Multiple Choice
Can planets be too big for life to exist?
Yes
No
- 7. Multiple Choice
The only planet we know of that can support life is _____________________________.
Mercury
Neptune
Pluto
Earth
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the habitable zone?
A zone with the correct distance away from a star so that liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.
A zone with the correct distance away from a star so that water vapor could exist in the planet's atmosphere..
A zone with the correct distance away from a star so that liquid water could exist deep underground beneath the planet's surface.
A zone in space far enough away from a star where water can be frozen.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceIn order for life as we know it to exist, a planet must have ______________________heatanimalsliquid watersolar energy
- 10. Multiple Choice
Earth’s atmosphere contains water vapor and carbon dioxide. These greenhouse gases are important because they -
are substances animals need to breathe.
trap thermal (heat) energy in the atmosphere.
protect against magnetic particles.
create Earth’s gravitational field.
- 11. Multiple Choice
The Goldilocks Zone is determined by the
mass and brightness of the planet
mass of the planet
type, mass and temperature of the star
gravity of the star
- 12. Multiple Choice
Scientist search for planets similar to earth based on these characteristics...
The number of other planets that surround the star similar to our Sun.
Distance from star & number of moons the planet has.
The color & size of the star.
Proximity, temperature, and mass of a nearby star.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe force that keeps planets on their orbit...orbitstarsplanetsgravity
- 14. Multiple ChoiceAtmosphere is :only consisting of argon and oxygengases on the floor of the Earthall the gases around a planetall the gases near the solar beams
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe path a planet takes as it revolves around the sunphaseorbitgalaxy directedgravitational force
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