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Week 1, What makes the Earth fit for
Life?

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
1
COVER PAGE 2
COPYRIGHT PAGE 3
TITLE PAGE 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lesson 1 – What makes the Earth fit for life? 5
What I Need to Know 5
What I Know 5
What’s In 7
What’s New 8
What is It 11
What’s More 13
What I Have Learned 15
What I Can Do 15
Additional Activities 17
Assessment 15
References 18

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Lesson
What makes the Earth fit for
1 life?

What I Need to Know

Introduction

Astronomy as a branch of science has increased our knowledge and

understanding about the universe most particularly with the Solar System. With the use
of powerful tools, advance technology and scientific discoveries, the characteristics of
the members of the Solar System have been revealed. For the longest time of
astronomical studies and scientific experiments, it remains that it is an amazing fact that
the Earth is the only planet where living things exist.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:

1. recognize the differences of the physical and chemical properties between the Earth
and the rest of the planets in the Solar System
2. identify the factors that allow a planet to support life

MELC: describe the characteristics of Earth that are necessary to support life

What I Know
Pre-Test

Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write it on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What is the most important prerequisite for life?
A. air B. mineral C. soil D. water
2. What factor influences the Earth’s surface temperature?
A. greenhouse gases C. sunlight
B. heat from the sun Sunlight D. volcanic eruption
3. Which organisms can tolerate extreme temperatures at 410C to 122 0C commonly
present in hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents?
A. extremophiles B. halophiles C. methanogens D. thermophiles

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4. Why is it impossible for life to exist in very low temperatures? Because low
temperatures _____________________.
A. cause freezing of water C. make liquid water unavailable
B. slow down chemical reactions D. all of the above
5. What effect of temperature is perfect for life? Temperature range can___________.
A. evaporate water
B. interfere with chemical reactions
C. make water to exist in liquid form
D. break protein, carbohydrates, DNA & RNA
6. Which protects the Earth from harmful radiation?
A. atmosphere B. gravity C. mantle D. water
7. What is the importance of the greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere?
A. filter incoming radiation C. make the Earth’s surface warm
B. block the planet from meteors D. protect against magnetic particles
8. What is a habitable zone also known as Goldilocks zone? It is a _______________.
A. zone from the sun that cannot support life
B. zone away from the sun that can sustain life
C. distance around the sun where water freezes
D. distance in space that enables water to vaporize
9. What protects the earth from ultraviolet rays?
A. clouds C. ozone layer
B. greenhouse gases D. water vapor
10. What best describes the amount of energy from the sun which enables the cells to
run the chemical reactions necessary for life?
A. too little C. sufficient and steady
B. B. too much D. none of the above
11. Proteins and carbohydrates are essentials for growth and development of
organisms. These substances can only be synthesized if a planet has _________.
A. air B. nutrients C. water D. source of energy
12. Sunlight is the form of energy which is used by plants to survive but some organisms
are able to extract energy from other sources. What are these organisms?
A. chemosynthetic B. parasitic C. photosynthetic D. saprophytic
13. What is the importance of water cycle, volcanism and plate
tectonics in maintaining life on Earth? These mechanisms
___________________.
A. circulate nutrients C. replenish nutrients
B. distribute nutrients D. all of the above
14. Which of the following would be an effect if the Earth is a small planet? It would have
____________________.
A. more gravity C. less exposure to harmful radiation
B. faster movement D. thin atmosphere due to weak gravity
15. Which is a factor required to sustain life on Earth?
A. low temperature C. very thin atmosphere
B. available nutrients D. changing input of energy

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 What’s In

Directions:
Give the word/s being described in each item of the crossword puzzle below. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.

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1 2

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6 9

7 8

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DOWN: ACROSS:

2) 13.8 billion years old 1) at the center of the Solar System

3) Milky Way 4) the expansion of a tiny, dense hot
5) Characteristics of the 4 inner planets
mass called singularity
8) Planet that sustains life 6) 4.6 billion years old
9) A natural satellite 7) location of the solar system in the
Milky way
10) A gaseous planet

Getting more excited to learn something new?

Continue…

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 What’s New

Activity #1 Characteristics of the the Eight Planets

Objectives
1. Compare and contrast the features of the eight planets.
2. Identify the features that make a planet habitable.

Procedure
1. Study the tabulated data on the characteristics of the eight planets.
2. Answer the guide questions using a separate sheet of paper.

https://sites.google.com/a/k12albemarle.org/cale-academy/home/science/order-of-theplanets

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THE “ROCKY” PLANETS . Adapted from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planet-compare/
CHARACTERISTICS MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS
Orbit Distance(km) 57,909,227 108,209,475 149,598,262 227,943,824

Equatorial Radius(km) 2,439.7 6,051.8 6,371.00 3,389.5

Volume(km3) 60,827,208,742 928,415,345,893 1,083,206,916,846 163,115,609,799

Mass(kg) 3.30104x1023 4.86732x1025 5.97219x1025 6.41693x1023

Density(g/cm3) 5.427 5.243 5.513 3.934

Surface Gravity(m/s2) 3.7 8.87 9.80665 3.71

Escape Velocity(km/h) 15,300 37,296 40,284 18,108

Rotation Period(Earth 58.646 -243.018 0.99726968 1.026

Days)

Orbit Period(Earth 0.2408467 0.61519726 1.0000174 1.8808476

Years)

Mean Orbit 170,503 126,074 107,218 86,677

Velocity(km/h)

Orbit Eccentricity 0.20563593 0.00677672 0.01671123 0.0933941

Orbit Inclination 7.0 degrees 3.39 degrees 0.00005 degrees 1.85 degrees

0 degrees 177.3 degrees 23.4393 degrees 25.2

(retrograde
rotation)
Equatorial Inclination
Surface Temperature(°C) -173/427 462 -88/58 (min/max) -153 to +20

Mean Temperature(°C) 464 15 -65

Temperature if no -46 -18 -57

greenhouse gases

Change in temperature +523 +33 +10

due to greenhouse
gases

Carbon Nitrogen(77%), Carbon

Dioxide(96%), Oxygen(21%), Dioxide(95%),
Nitrogen(3.5%) Argon (1%) Nitrogen(2.7%),
Atmospheric
Argon(1.6%)
Constituents
Major Greenhouse Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide, Carbon dioxide
Gases Water

Moons 0 0 1 2

Rings No No No No

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THE “GASEOUS” PLANETS
CHARACTERISTICS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTURNE
Orbit Distance(km) 778,340,821 1,426,666,422 2,870,658,186 4,498,396,441

Equatorial Radius(km) 69,911 58,232 25,362 24,622

Volume(km3) 1,431,281,810,73 827,129,915,150,897 68,334,355,695,584 62,525,703,987,421

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Mass(kg) 1.89813x1027 5.68319x1026 8.681x1025 1.0241x1026

Density(g/cm3) 1.326 0.687 1.270 1.638

Surface Gravity(m/s2) 24.79 10.4* 8.87 11.15

Escape Velocity(km/h) 216,720 129,924 76,968 84,816

Rotation Period(Earth 0.444 -0.718 0.671

Days) 0.41354

Orbit Period(Earth 11.862615 29.447498 84.016846 164.79132

Years)

Mean Orbit 47,002 34,701 24,477 19,566

Velocity(km/h)

Orbit Eccentricity 0.04838624 0.05386179 0.04725744 0.00859048

Orbit Inclination 1.304 degrees 2.49 degrees 0.77 degrees 1.77 degrees

3.1 degrees 26.7 degrees 97.8 degrees 28.3 degrees

(retrograde
rotation)
Equatorial Inclination
Surface
Temperature(°C)

Atmospheric Hydrogen, Hydrogen, Hydrogen, Hydrogen,

Constituents Helium Helium Helium, Methane Helium,
Methane
Moons 79 83 27 14

Rings Yes Yes Yes Yes

Guide Questions:
1. Among the characteristics of the planets, which do you think are essential for life?
2. Write the similarities and differences of these planets in terms of features that may be
necessary for life. Present your answer in table form.
3. Which planets have water? In what phase?
4. Is the phase of water present in a planet important to support life? Why?

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 What is It
Instruction: Read the document discussing on “Factors that make a Planet Habitable”
and answer the questions that follows. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Factors that make a Planet Habitable

Factors that Not Enough of the Just Right Too Much of the Factor Situation in the Solar
make a Planet Factor System
Habitable
Temperature Low temperatures Life seems to be limited At about 1250C, protein Surface: Only the
influences how cause chemicals to to a and carbohydrate Earth’s surface is in this
quickly atoms and react slowly, which temperature range - molecules and the genetic temperature range.
molecules move. interfere with the 150C to 1150C. In this material (e.g., DNA and Sub-surface: the interior
reactions necessary for range, liquid water can RNA) start to break apart. of the solid planets and
life. It can also cause exist under certain moons maybe in this
Also high temperatures
freezing of water, conditions. temperature range.
cause the quick
making liquid water
unavailable. evaporation of
water
Atmosphere Small planets and Earth & Venus are the Venus’s atmosphere is Of the solid planets &
moons have insufficient right size to hold a 100 times thicker than moons, only Earth,
gravity to hold an sufficient-sized Earth’s. It is made almost Venus, & Titan have
atmosphere. The gas atmosphere. Earth’s entirely of greenhouse significant
molecules escape to atmosphere is about gases, making the surface atmospheres. Mars’
space, leaving the 100 miles thick. It too hot for life. The four atmosphere is about
planet or moon without keeps the surface giant planets are 1/100th that of Earth’s, to
an insulating blanket or warm & protects it from completely made of gas. small for significant
a protective shield. radiation & small to insulation or shielding.
medium-sized
meteorites.

Energy When there is too little
sunlight or too few of the
chemicals that provide
energy to cells, such as
iron or sulfur, organisms
die.
Nutrients are Without chemicals to
used to build and make proteins & moons have the same
maintain an carbohydrates,
organism’s body. organisms cannot grow.
Planets without systems
to deliver nutrients to its
organisms (e.g., a water
cycle or volcanic
activity) cannot support
life. Also, when
nutrients are spread so
thin that they are hard to
obtain, such as on a gas
planet, life cannot exist.
With a steady input of Light energy is a problem
either light or chemical if it makes a planet too hot
energy, cells can run or if there are to many
the chemical reactions harmful rays, such as
necessary for life. ultraviolet. Too many
energy-rich chemicals is
not a problem.
All solid planets and Too many nutrients are
not a problem. However,
general chemical make too active circulation
up, so nutrients are system, such as the
present. Those with a constant volcanism on
water cycle and Jupiter’s moon, lo, or the
volcanic activity can churning atmospheres of
transport and replenish the gas planets,
the chemicals required interferes with an
by living organisms. organism’s ability to get
enough nutrients.
Surface: The inner
planets get too much
sunlight for life. The
outer planets get too
little.
Sub-surface: Most solid
planets & moons have
energy-rich chemicals.
Surface: Earth has a
water cycle, an
atmosphere and
volcanoes to circulate
nutrients. Venus, Titan,
Io and Mars have
nutrients and ways to
circulate them to
organisms.
Sub-surface: Any planet
or moon with sub-
surface water or molten
rock an circulate and
replenish nutrients for
organisms.

Questions:

1. What temperature is ideal for living things to survive?

2. Which planet possesses the ideal temperature for life forms to thrive in?
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3. Greenhouse gases are capable of trapping heat. What do you think will happen to the Earth
in the absence of these gases?
4. Venus and Mars have gaseous envelope just like the Earth. Why is it that life doesn’t exist
in these 2 planets?
5. Scientific evidences reveal that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune contain a very thick
atmosphere of mostly hydrogen and helium. Do you think this atmospheric content is
capable of sustaining life? Yes or No? Why?
6. Sunlight is required to run chemical reactions necessary for life. Why do the inner and outer
planets not habitable even if sunlight is available?
7. What is unique about the way nutrients on planet Earth contribute in sustaining life?

Well done!
But you can have more.

Additional Information

A planet's temperature is a function of its distance from the Sun. However, this factor
can be modified by the intensity of greenhouse warming. The greenhouse effect is a natural
process that warms the Earth’s surface. When the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s
atmosphere, some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by
greenhouse gases. These gases include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
ozone and some artificial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

The absorbed energy warms the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth. This process
maintains the Earth’s temperature at around 330C warmer than it would otherwise be, allowing
life on Earth to exist.

The Earth’s warm temperature makes water exist in liquid form which is one of the most
important prerequisites for life. Acting as a medium in which organic compounds could mix with
one another, water facilitated the formation of the planet's first life forms, possibly even
protecting them from the sun's radiation. Moreover, water is essential simply because it is liquid
at Earth-like temperatures. Because it flows, water provides an efficient way to transfer
substances from the cell then to cell’s environment.

The location of the Earth in the solar system lies within the “Goldilocks” zone or
habitable zone where the amount of heat and sunlight is just right. The sun’s heat warms the
seas, stirs the atmosphere, generates the weather patterns, and gives energy for
photosynthetic activity of growing plants that provide food and oxygen for life on Earth.
Sunlight is essential for photosynthesis but some organisms are able to get energy
from other sources like the chemosynthetic bacteria which extract from the chemicals present
in hydrothermal vents. These organisms have the ability to thrive in dark and hot vents at mid-
ocean ridges. They belong to the group of extremophiles who can survive in harsh
environments. Extremophiles are organisms that live and thrive in habitats where life is
impossible for most living organisms. The suffix (-phile) comes from the Greek philos meaning
to love. Extremophiles have a "love for" or attraction to extreme environments. They have the
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ability to withstand conditions such as high radiation (radiophile), high or low pressure
(barophile), high or low pH acidophile/alkalophile), lack of light(chemosynthetic), extreme
heat(hyperthermophile), extreme cold(psychrophile), extreme dryness (xerophile) and very
salty water (halophile). The findings of the extremophiles provide an understanding of the
physiological parameters defining life on Earth and may provide insight into how life in this
planet originated.

What’s More

Activity #2
Emergency Landing!

Imagine that you were in a space travel then a meteoroid has hit your spaceship!
Luckily, you are passing through a Planetary System, which consists of a sun-like star
surrounded by seven planets, some of which have moons. The spaceship has barely enough
fuel and guidance ability to allow you to select a nearby place to have the emergency landing.
Below are profiles of each of the planets and moons in the Planetary System. The information
is sketchy, but it's all your sensors had time to collect before going off-line due to the damage
caused by the meteoroid. Good luck!

Instructions:
1. Study the details of each planet.
2. Decide which planet or moon to land on.
3. Record your selections and the reasons why you chose that planet or moon on sheet of
paper.
Profiles of Planets and Moon in the Stella System. Modified from
http://www.voyagesthroughtime.org/planetary/sample/lesson5/pdf/5_3_1sas_crashland.pdf
Planet 1 (closet to the star) Mass: 1.5 Planet 4 Mass: 1.5 Tectonics: Active volcanoes
(Earth = 1) Tectonics: Active volcanoes and and seismic activity detected Atmosphere: N,
seismic activity detected Atmosphere: CO2, O2, and ozone layer Average Temperature: 20C
N, and H20 Ave. Temperature: 6510C Description: Cold oceans, covered with ice
Description: Thick clouds surround the along much of the globe, some open water
planet. No surface is visible through the around equator
clouds.
Planet 2 Mass: 0.5 Tectonics: No activity Planet 5 Gas Giant with one large moon. Moon:
detected Atmosphere: Thin CO2 Sulfur dioxide (SO2) atmosphere. Many
atmosphere detected Average volcanoes and hot springs on surface.
Temperature: 10oC Description: Polar ice Temperatures in hot spots can be up to 600oC.
caps, dry riverbeds Other spots away from volcanic heat can get as
low in temperature as 145oC.

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Planet 3 Mass: 1 Tectonics: Active Planet 6 Gas giant with four large, rocky
volcanoes and seismic activity detected. satellites (moons). Moons have no appreciable
Atmosphere: CO2, H2O Temperature: 30 0C atmosphere. Ice detectable on one.
Description: Liquid water oceans cover
much of the surface. Volcanic island chains
make up most of the dry land.
Planet 7 (furthest from the star) Gas giant with
two large moons. Moon 1: Thick methane
atmosphere with pressure high enough to keep
a potential methane ocean liquid underneath.
Temperature: -200 oC Moon 2: Covered in water
ice. Ice appears cracked and re-frozen in parts,
indicating a potential liquid ocean underneath.
Questions:
1. Which planet do you think is the best to land on?
2. What factors do you consider in your emergency landing which will enable you to survive?

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Watch a video, “Why is there life on

Earth?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2BclOxSvfk&t=6s) or read about “6 Things that
make Life on Earth Possible”.

ENRICHMENT

Activity #3
Terraforming Mars

Terraform means to transform another planet to resemble the Earth in several aspects,
specifically the ability to support life.

Instruction: Use a piece of paper in answering the question that follows. Answer briefly.

Question: Is it possible for Mars to become a habitable planet? How?

What I Have Learned

GENERALIZATION

Instruction: Write your answer on a separate sheet.

There are factors vital for the existence of life on Earth. Describe each factor in order to
generalize that the Earth is habitable.

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 What I Can Do

Application

The Earth’s atmosphere today contains more greenhouse gas molecules like carbon
dioxide, methane, and etc. due to human activities. The result of this is an increase of its
surface temperature. Predict the future of Earth if global warning will not be addressed. What
contribution can you give to make the Earth still a more livable planet?

Assessment

Post Test

Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write it on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is most essential for the survival of living things?

A. air B. mineral C. soil D. water
2. Which of the following factors increases the Earth’s surface temperature?
A. greenhouse gases C. sunlight B. heat from the sun D. volcanic eruption
3. What kind of bacteria can endure very high temperature?
A. extremophiles B. halophiles C. methanogens D. thermophiles
4. Why does very low temperature make it difficult for living organisms to survive?
Because low temperature_________________.
A. causes freezing of water C. slows down chemical reactions
B. makes liquid water unavailable D. All of the above
5. Why is the temperature range of -150C to 1150C perfect for life? It is because this range
can ______________________.
A. evaporate water
B. make water exist in liquid form
C. interfere with chemical reactions
D. break protein, carbohydrates, DNA & RNA
6. Which of the following shields the Earth from harmful cosmic radiation?
A. atmosphere B. gravity C. Mantle D. Water
7. What is the benefit of greenhouse gases? They _______________________________.
A. filter incoming radiation C. make the Earth’s surface warm
B. block the planet from meteors D. protect against magnetic particles

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8. Which describes the habitable zone also called as Goldilocks zone? It is a/an__________.
A. area from the sun that cannot support life.
B. area away from the sun that can sustain life.
C. distance around the sun where water freezes.
D. distance in space that enables water to vaporize.
9. What is the importance of the ozone layer? It ___________________________________.
A. filters UV radiation
B. absorbs the heat of the sun
C. increases the surface temperature of the Earth
D. protects the Earth from falling objects from space
10. How do you describe the energy from the sun required of the cells to run the chemical
reactions necessary for life?
A. insufficient or too little C. sufficient and steady
B. more than sufficient D. none of the above
11. Proteins and carbohydrates are essentials for growth and development of organisms. What
must be present in a planet for its organisms to synthesize these substances?
A.air B. nutrients C. water D. source of energy
12. What organisms use other sources of energy aside from the sunlight?
A. chemosynthetic B. parasitic C. photosynthetic D. saprophytic
13. What can water cycle, volcanism and plate tectonics do in maintaining life on Earth?
These can _____________________.
A. circulate nutrients B. replenish nutrients
B. distribute nutrients D. all of the above
14. If the Earth could have been small, what would be its effect? It would have ___________.
A. more gravity C. less exposure to harmful radiation B. faster movement
D. thin atmosphere due to weak gravity
15. Which is NOT a factor required to sustain life on Earth?
A. available nutrients C. very thin atmosphere
B. steady input energy D. moderate temperature

Wow!
You made it.

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 Additional Activities
Activity # 4 Habitable or Inhabitable

Objectives
1. describe the environments shown in the pictures
2. Infer the possibility of life in these places

Procedure
1. Study and analyze the pictures below whether these environments support life.
2. Copy the table on a piece of paper and fill it up for your observations and inferences.

Figure 1. Polar Region Figure 2. Dessert

Figure 3. Erupting Volcano Figure 4. Deep Sea Vent

POSSIBILITY FOR LIFE TO EXIST (Habitable,
Not Habitable, Maybe)
ENVIRONMENT CONDITION
(Describe)

Questions:

1. Which environments are habitable? Explain why life is possible in these places?
2. Is there a place in your observation that is not habitable? Why?

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OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Watch a video clip from National Geographic on Extremophiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY1d5Saqrc4 (if internet connectivity is available).

References
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/a281/lectures/15-Extremophiles.pdf

https://biologydictionary.net/extremophile/

https://sites.google.com/a/k12albemarle.org/cale-academy/home/science/order-of-

theplanets https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planet-compare/

file:///C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/Earth%20Science.pdf

http://www.voyagesthroughtime.org/planetary/sample/lesson5/pdf/5_3_1sas_crashland.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2BclOxSvfk&t=6s

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/03/one-strange-rock-interactive-
earthsolar-system-milky-way-galaxy/
http://www.learninginmotion.com/voyagesthroughtime.org/planetary/sample/lesson5/z_act3.
htm

https://www.environment.gov.au/climate-change/climate-science-
data/climatescience/greenhouseeffect#:~:text=The%20greenhouse%20effect%20is%20a,re
%2Dradiated%20by%20greenho
use%20gases.&text=The%20absorbed%20energy%20warms%20the%20atmosphere%20a
nd%20the%20surface%20of%20the%20Earth.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/water-vital-to-life.htm
https://www.livescience.com/52332-why-is-water-needed-
forlife.html#:~:text=In%20this%20regard%2C%20water%20is,cell%20to%20the%20cell's%2
0e nvironment.

https://www.britannica.com/science/extremophile https://history.nasa.gov/EP-

177/ch3-

1.html#:~:text=Nothing%20is%20more%20important%20to,oxygen%20for%20life%20on%2
0Earth.

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