"Focus" Questions

The following questions appear at the beginning of each segment in the television broadcast, The Case of the Inhabitable Habitat.

Segment 1

• Why is Mars called the Red Planet?
• What is a habitat?
• What are the basic needs for plants?

Segment 2

• What is a food web?
• What is transpiration?
• Why does NASA want students to grow plants?

Segment 3

• What is the KC-135 used for?
• What is neutral buoyancy?
• What does a space suit protect astronauts from?

Segment 4

• How are space trash cans different from trash cans on Earth?
• How can space trash be dangerous?
• What is migration?