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Travel Our Solar System: Discover New Creatures

Domain-Specific Vocabulary:

adapt: make something suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.

atmosphere: gases surrounding a star or planetary body.

characteristic: a feature or quality; an appearance that makes an individual or a group different from others.

revolve: to move around the Sun; orbit.

rotate: the spinning of a planet on its axis.

radius: any of the line segments from its center to its perimeter of a circle or sphere

diameter: the length of the line through the center that touches two points on the edge of the circle or sphere. The diameter is twice the length of the radius of a circle.

Do other beings exist in the universe?

How do they survive in such extreme conditions?

What kind of adaptations do they have to develop to live on a different planet?

Your Objectives:

Day 1: Research a planet in our solar system and gather information about the different environments on the planet.

Day 2 & 3: Design a creature that could survive all of the harsh conditions on your assigned planet.

*Think about different animals on Earth and all of the different ways they have adapted to live in extreme environments.

Resources To Use

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Check out how some animals have adapted to their environments in order to find food and survive harsh weather conditions.

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