Energy From the Earth: The Conditions for Life
Lesson Express
Q: How does studying how life began on Earth help us to understand how life may have emerged on other planets?
A: Student responses will vary. Students may talk about how energy is created or how we can understand the conditions needed to create life.
Q: What are proton cascades? Where do we see them?
A: A series of events that involve a transfer of protons. We see them in alkaline vents in the ocean.
Q: How does a volcano create energy?
A: Heat bubbles up and this creates a chemical reaction that creates energy.
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In Getting Started: Life on Earth and Mars, Professor Brian Cox explains the conditions that are required for life to begin. Learn how Earth and Mars had these conditions at the same time. Could life have started in two places at once? Or might the life on Earth have come from outer space? This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.
In Getting Started: Life on Earth and Mars, Professor Brian Cox explains the conditions that are required for life to begin. Learn how Earth and Mars had these conditions at the same time. Could life have started in two places at once? Or might the life on Earth have come from outer space? This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Planets, a series that explores the dramatic lives of the eight planets in our Solar System.