Planet Profile:
Introductory Discussion Notes
Is there life on
other planets?
Could there be
life (as we know it) on other planets?
What conditions
would be necessary?
Probe
deeper: e.g. if they say that ÒfoodÓ is a necessary condition, ask where food
comes fromÉ
What about time?É.
on Earth, what determines how long a day is? What determines how long a year
is? Would life be different, or even possible if the day/year were different?
What kind of life could/could not survive?
What about
gravity? What causes earth to have the amount of gravity it has? How would life
be different with greater or less gravity?
Cover all other
topics listed: