QUESTIONS TO ANSWER WHILE WATCHING THE BIG BANG AND BEYOND

1. What was the earliest type of bacteria?

2. What are the environmental conditions like in black smokers?

   Can anything live there? (If so, what?)

3. What "building blocks of life" can be created in the lab?

4. Although we can create the "building blocks of life" in the lab, what is still missing? (What is needed for it to be "life"?)

5. Could any of the "building blocks of life" have come from outer space? Explain.

6. Where is a good place to hunt meteorites, and why?

7. What type of meteorite contains the only known prebiotic organic matter in the universe? What types of organic matter do they contain?

8. What are lipids? How are they used by organisms?

9. How old are most meteorites?

10. Approximately when did life first appear on Earth?

11. What can isotopes of nitrogen tell us?

12. What is a supernova? What does it signify?
     

13. Be able to describe one of the ways in which our solar system may have formed.

14. How do scientists sample atmospheric dust that comes from space?

    How often do they catch a particle?

    What are these particles like?

    What is their origin?
     

15. How many stars are present in a galaxy, and how many galaxies are present in the Universe?

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September 6, 2004