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Open Stax: Requirements for Human Life

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Earth and its atmosphere have provided us with air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat, but these are not the only requirements for survival. Although you may rarely think about it, you also cannot live outside of a certain range of temperature and pressure that the surface of our planet and its atmosphere provides. This site explores these four requirements of life.

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atmospheric pressure, hypothermia, nutrients, oxygen, temperature, human biology

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9th - 10th
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Science
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