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Discussion: Life’s Extreme Environments

Discussion Topic
Everything we know about life comes from studying our own planet. Recent discoveries about life forms in extreme environments have renewed scientists’ interest in looking for life elsewhere.
Organisms that thrive in a wide variety of harsh conditions –called extremophiles—are broadening scientists’ understanding of the diverse environmental conditions life can withstand. Scientists have had to modify their theories and expand their view of what types of environments are habitable based on the new information presented by the existence of extremophiles.
Watch the following 1.5 minute NOVA video on extremophiles. Complete your initial post by answering the questions below:
Life’s Extreme Environments
https:www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvfl.sci.space.extremophiles/lifes-extreme-environments/#.WjLURN-nGM8