Origins of Life
This gas, found in early Earth’s atmosphere, is essential for life but was rare back then.
What is Oxegen?
What do we call organisms that live in extreme environments?
What are extremophiles?
What does “SETI” stand for?
What is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
What planet is known for its big red spot?
What is Jupiter?
What company made the Falcon 9 rocket?
What is SpaceX?
This “soup” is a theory that life began in Earth’s early oceans.
What is the primordial soup?
These extremophiles love very hot places like hydrothermal vents.
What are thermophiles?
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is the Milky Way?
Which planet has the largest volcano in the solar system?
What is Mars?
What Mars rover landed in 2012 and is still working today?
What is Curiosity?
Tiny cell-like structures formed from lipids are called what?
What are protocells?
An organism that survives in salty conditions is called what?
What is a halophile?
A planet outside our solar system is called what?
What is an exoplanet?
What planet has rings made of ice and rock?
What is Saturn?
What space telescope was launched before James Webb?
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
What do scientists call the idea that life started from simple chemicals?
what is abiogenesis?
Tardigrades are known for surviving in space. What is their nickname?
What are water bears?
What part of space do scientists look for planets that could have life?
What is the habitable zone or Goldilocks zone?
What Planet is the 2nd closet to the sun?
Venus
What planet is NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft exploring?
What is Pluto?
What experiment tried to recreate early Earth’s conditions to create life?
What is the Miller-Urey experiment?
What kind of extremophile lives without oxygen?
What is an anaerobe?
What famous message was sent into space in 1974 to contact aliens?
What is the Arecibo message?
List out our solar systems plants in order form closet to the sun to farthest.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. A saying to help remember is (My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos)
What twin spacecraft are sending messages from deep space since the 1970s?
What are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2?