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The inhospitable caves known as Caeva De Willa Luiz in Mexico are home to bacteria which form large colonies that drip from the ceilings. These colonies are called _________.
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(snottities)
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Lake Vostok is a large body of water which is located about 4,000 m below the ___________ ice sheets and contains abundant life which can tolerate the extreme cold.
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(Antarctic)
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Bacteria live 3.5 km underground within the Earth’s crust and gain their energy from _______ gas.
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(methane)
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______, a moon of Jupiter, is hypothesized to have a liquid ocean capable of supporting life under its thick ice caps.
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(Europa)
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SETI was the first scientific organization to look for evidence of ______________
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(Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
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The equation formulated in the 1960’s to estimate the possible number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy is called the _______ equation.
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(Drake)
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Although it is currently impossible to see distant planets around other stars using telescopes, we can detect them because the planets exert a gravitational pull on the stars that they orbit. This pull causes the star to _________.
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(wobble)
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________ telescopes were the first type of telescopes employed to look for the signals of communication from distant civilizations.
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(Radio)
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One argument for the presence of intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy assumes that because _________ evolved, the conditions of the universe must be suitable for intelligent life to evolve elsewhere.
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(humans)
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