"ANGRY RED PLANET is one of a series of online science mysteries created for Access Excellence, a national science and health education program. Through Access Excellence, high school biology and life sciences teachers gain access to colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web." http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/arp/about.htm
Go to: Angry Red Planet at http://www.accessexcellence.org/arp/index.htm
Answer the following questions: (questions in: Word format Pdf format)
1. What is in each pod? How does this make it possible for a person to survive in it?
2. What are the effects on humans if carbon dioxide levels are too high?
3. What is Haidee’s theory about the abnormal levels? What about her theory could be correct? What would they have to do to test out this theory?
4. What is Jerrold’s theory about the abnormal levels? What about his theory could be correct?
5. Why does Foster feel that fire might be causing the change?
6. Could just raising his metabolism be causing such a change in gases?
7. Explore the graph. What does it show you?
8. Are there any visual differences between his pod and storage containers than in the other pods?
9. What was your first guess bout what was wrong with his pod? Why did you guess this? Were you right or wrong?
10. How would have the correct answer have caused the changes in the gases?