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Characteristics of Earth That Are Necessary To Support Life

Earth is able to support life due to several key factors: 1) A temperature that is suitable for biological and chemical reactions to occur. 2) The presence of water, which is critical for biological processes but must be in liquid form. 3) An atmosphere that provides insulation from radiation, protects from meteorites, and supplies necessary chemicals. 4) A source of energy in sunlight that powers photosynthesis and some chemosynthetic organisms. 5) Nutrients that are recycled through processes like the water, carbon, oxygen, phosphate, and nitrogen cycles to build and maintain organisms.

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Characteristics of Earth That Are Necessary To Support Life

Earth is able to support life due to several key factors: 1) A temperature that is suitable for biological and chemical reactions to occur. 2) The presence of water, which is critical for biological processes but must be in liquid form. 3) An atmosphere that provides insulation from radiation, protects from meteorites, and supplies necessary chemicals. 4) A source of energy in sunlight that powers photosynthesis and some chemosynthetic organisms. 5) Nutrients that are recycled through processes like the water, carbon, oxygen, phosphate, and nitrogen cycles to build and maintain organisms.

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Characteristics of Earth that are

Necessary to Support Life


Earth Science
 The size of the planet and its
Earth has been existing 4.543 billion years. distance from the sun affects its
In its early formation, life was not possible because ability to hold significant amount
the environment did not permit it. However, as time of atmosphere.
went by, life flourished from microorganisms into a  Earth has a right size and distance
more complex organism. The presence of life on from the sun that permits it to have
Earth was made possible due to the following factors: a right amount of atmosphere. The
presence of gravity also helps in
1. Temperature. It influences how quickly sustaining its atmosphere.
atoms, molecules or organisms move.
a. Low temperature slows down 4. Energy. Earth has available energy-rich
chemical reaction and produces ice sunlight to support life.
that makes liquid water
unavailable.  Living organisms like plants and
b. High temperature can cause photosynthetic bacteria use light as
breakdown of important biological the source of their energy.
molecules.  Some chemosynthetic organisms
In Earth’s condition, temperature is just rely on chemical energy to support
right to support life. various biological processes.
 Earth is at right position from the
2. Water. It is one of the important sun that enables it to harness
ingredients in the different biological enough amount of sunlight.
processes.
 Absence of this will interfere 5. Nutrients. It is an essential factor used to
reactions necessary for life. build and maintain organism’s body
However, solid form of this will structure.
also hinder living organisms to use  Insufficient or absence of nutrients
it. can impede synthesis of the
 Water on Earth has different different biological molecules.
forms. It is solid (ice) in the two  In our planet, there are processes
poles and liquid along the equator that recycle nutrients. Water,
which allows living organisms to carbon and oxygen, phosphate and
consume it. nitrogen cycle are some of the
examples.
3. Atmosphere. It provides significant  Volcanism also helps in cycling
insulation or shielding from the sun and the nutrients.
impact of small to medium size meteorites.
 Greenhouse gases like carbon
dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)
trap heat and protects our planet
from freezing. Moreover, ozone
(03) layer shields the Earth’s
surface from harmful UV
radiation.
 Atmosphere also provides
chemicals needed for life, such as
nitrogen and carbon dioxide.

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