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From the Ted Talk by Aomawa Shields: How we'll find life on other planets
Unscramble the Blue Letters
On our planet, where there's waetr, there's life. So we look for planets that oirbt at just the right distance from their stars. At this distance, shown in blue on this daaigrm for stars of different temperatures, pnteals could be warm enough for water to flow on their surfaces as lakes and oceans where life might reside. Some astronomers focus their time and energy on finding planets at these diescatns from their stars. What I do picks up where their job ends. I model the possible climates of exoplanets. And here's why that's important: there are many factors besides distance from its star that control whether a planet can support life.
Open Cloze
On our planet, where there's _____, there's life. So we look for planets that _____ at just the right distance from their stars. At this distance, shown in blue on this _______ for stars of different temperatures, _______ could be warm enough for water to flow on their surfaces as lakes and oceans where life might reside. Some astronomers focus their time and energy on finding planets at these _________ from their stars. What I do picks up where their job ends. I model the possible climates of exoplanets. And here's why that's important: there are many factors besides distance from its star that control whether a planet can support life.
Solution
- planets
- distances
- water
- diagram
- orbit
Original Text
On our planet, where there's water, there's life. So we look for planets that orbit at just the right distance from their stars. At this distance, shown in blue on this diagram for stars of different temperatures, planets could be warm enough for water to flow on their surfaces as lakes and oceans where life might reside. Some astronomers focus their time and energy on finding planets at these distances from their stars. What I do picks up where their job ends. I model the possible climates of exoplanets. And here's why that's important: there are many factors besides distance from its star that control whether a planet can support life.
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Important Words
- astronomers
- blue
- climates
- control
- diagram
- distance
- distances
- ends
- energy
- exoplanets
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- finding
- flow
- focus
- job
- lakes
- life
- model
- oceans
- orbit
- picks
- planet
- planets
- reside
- shown
- star
- stars
- support
- surfaces
- temperatures
- time
- warm
- water