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    The document discusses the key factors that make Earth habitable for life. It explains that a planet needs: 1) A temperature range that allows liquid water via being in the habitable zone of its star. 2) The presence of water, which is essential for transporting nutrients and dissolving substances. 3) An atmosphere that traps heat, shields radiation, and provides gases like nitrogen and carbon dioxide. 4) A source of energy, primarily from the sun, to power biological processes. 5) Nutrients that help break down food and are used in all biological processes.

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    The document discusses the key factors that make Earth habitable for life. It explains that a planet needs: 1) A temperature range that allows liquid water via being in the habitable zone of its star. 2) The presence of water, which is essential for transporting nutrients and dissolving substances. 3) An atmosphere that traps heat, shields radiation, and provides gases like nitrogen and carbon dioxide. 4) A source of energy, primarily from the sun, to power biological processes. 5) Nutrients that help break down food and are used in all biological processes.

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    WHAT IS PLANET?

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    G11 LESSON 1 ELS

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    The document discusses the key factors that make Earth habitable for life. It explains that a planet needs: 1) A temperature range that allows liquid water via being in the habitable zone of its star. 2) The presence of water, which is essential for transporting nutrients and dissolving substances. 3) An atmosphere that traps heat, shields radiation, and provides gases like nitrogen and carbon dioxide. 4) A source of energy, primarily from the sun, to power biological processes. 5) Nutrients that help break down food and are used in all biological processes.

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    THE

    PLANET
    EARTH
    What is a Planet?
    •Derived from the Greek word
    “planetes” which means
    “wanderer”
    • revolves around the sun and
    rotate on their axis.
    •It undergoes two motion;
    revolution and rotation.
    Criteria to be classified as
    PLANET
    • Orbit the sun
    • Massive enough to be in a
    hydrostatic equilibrium
    • It has cleared neighborhood
    around its orbit
    Terrestrial Vs. Jovian
    Terrestrial planets are Earth-like planets made up of
    rocks or metals with a hard surface. They have very few
    natural satellites – the Earth has the relatively large Moon
    and Mars has two small captured asteroids as moons.

    These planets have no solid surfaces and are essentially


    large balls of gas composed primarily of hydrogen and
    helium. They are much larger than the terrestrial planets. It
    has rings
    They have a lot of moons, and their mass gives them
    more gravitational pull.
    HOW WELL
    DO YOU
    KNOW OUR
    PLANET
    EARTH?
    WHAT
    MAKES OUR
    PLANET
    DIFFERENT
    FROM OTHER
    PLANETS?
    EARTH: A HABITABLE PLANET
    FACTORS THAT MAKES A
    PLANET HABITABLE
    1.TEMPERATURE
    2.WATER
    3.ATMOSPHERE
    4.ENERGY
    5.NUTRIENTS
    TEMPERATURE
    A planet that stably orbits its
    star inside the habitable zone
    will have a temperature range
    that can support life and
    ensure that water can exist in
    a liquid state.
    WATER
    A planet that stably orbits its star inside the
    habitable zone will have a temperature range that
    can support life and ensure that water can exist in a
    liquid state.

    The importance of water has often been


    emphasized when it comes to life on other planets.
    Water is an essential ingredient for transporting
    nutrients and chemicals between cells. It is also
    capable of dissolving many substances, more than
    any other liquid. For this reason, it has been called
    the universal solvent.
    ATMOSPHERE
    Traps heat, shields the surface from harmful
    radiation, and provides chemicals needed for
    life, such as nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
    Not only does it contain the oxygen we need
    to live, but it also protects us from harmful
    ultraviolet solar radiation. It creates the
    pressure without which liquid water couldn’t
    exist on our planet’s surface. And it warms our
    planet and keeps temperatures habitable for our
    living Earth.
    ENERGY
    Organisms use light or chemical energy
    to run their life processes. Energy is vital to
    life on Earth. The sun radiates more solar
    energy in one day than our entire world
    uses in a day, generating nuclear energy
    from a process called nuclear fusion. The
    sun’s radiant energy takes eight minutes to
    reach the Earth, traveling at the speed of
    light.
    NUTRIENTS
    They are necessary to the lives of
    people, plants, animals, and all other
    organisms. Nutrients help break down
    food to give organisms energy. They
    are used in every process of an
    organism's body. Some of the
    processes are growth (building cells),
    repair (healing a wound), and
    maintaining life (breathing).

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