Extraterrestrial Search Parsons Vocabulary

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Text: Extraterrestrial Search                          Author: Sharron Parsons

Word (and page number)	Sentence in the text	Meaning in my own words
1. Extraterrestrial P.4 2. Potentially P.4 3. Cosmonaut P.7 4. Velocity P.8 5. Metabolism P.14 6. Protoplanetary P.22 7. Civilisation P.26 8.Terrestrials P.29 9.Cylindrical P.29 10.Metallic P.31	1. We earthlings have been fascinated by the possibility of Extraterrestrial life inhabiting neighbouring planets 2. Hundreds of the planets that could potentially support life have been discovered in our own galaxy 3. She was a parachutist before she trained as a cosmonaut 4.Spacecraft Velocity, about 8300 kilometers an hour. 5.Most like Earth also needs water, a range of temperatures in which in which it can survive, a mixture of gases it uses for its metabolism. 6. The scientific team there uses two powerful infrared optical telescopes to study fast-swirling dust and gas clouds called protoplanetary disks 7. One way to do this is to search for signal from other planetary civilisations. 8. Welcome to another episode of ETS, the online program  that invites Earths expert terrestrials.    9. But he was unable to make out what exactly, the cylindrical object was. 10. He described these UFOs as metallic.	1. Extraterrestrial from the outside of our earths atmosphere 2. It could be possible but yet certain 3.A cosmonaut is a person trained the a spaceflight program 4. The speed of something given a direction. 5.The chemical processes within organism in order to maintain life 6. The stage of a human of social development and organization which is most concerned most advanced. 7. A gathering, A place  of cultural activities 8. Something that has happened around the world 9.Having a form of cylinder. 10. Metallic is a form of colour