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Mercury Facts and Biomimicry Insights

Mercury is just over 3,000 miles in diameter and has three main layers - a core, crust, and mantle. Its overall size is made smaller by its exceptionally large core. Mercury's exosphere is composed of oxygen, sodium, helium, potassium, and hydrogen. It is a planet of extremes due to its proximity to the sun and lack of atmosphere. NASA's Mariner 10 and MESSENGER spacecraft have both visited Mercury.

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Mercury Facts and Biomimicry Insights

Mercury is just over 3,000 miles in diameter and has three main layers - a core, crust, and mantle. Its overall size is made smaller by its exceptionally large core. Mercury's exosphere is composed of oxygen, sodium, helium, potassium, and hydrogen. It is a planet of extremes due to its proximity to the sun and lack of atmosphere. NASA's Mariner 10 and MESSENGER spacecraft have both visited Mercury.

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  • Listening Practice Exercise: Contains a series of questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises designed to test listening comprehension and general knowledge.

LISTENING PRACTICE

Ex 1: Q and A
1. What is the diameter of Mercury?
Just over 3 thousand miles
2. What are three main layers of Mercury?
They are the core, the crust and the mantle.
3. Why is Mercury's overall size made to shrink?
Because of the exceptional size of the core.
4. What is the exosphere composed of?
Oxygen, sodium, helium, potassium, hydrogen.
5. What makes Mercury a planet of extremes?
The close proximity to the sun and the lack of atmosphere.
6. What spacecraft paid a visit to Mercury?
NASA's Mariner 10 and NASA's MESSENGER.
EX 2: Complete the spaces with a word or a short phrase
1. …………Biomimicry……………. imitates nature’s structures, processes and systems to create new ideas.
2. ………Velcro……………was developed after its inventor observed the sticking qualities of one particular plant’s …………
seed heads……………. 
3. Wood has the beneficial feature of being able to …………hold nails……………. 
4. The synthetic ‘wood’ created for the post office will not ………change shape………………. according to surrounding
environmental conditions. 
5. The Namibian Fog Basking beetle uses its ability to ………harvest moisture………………. in order to live in harsh
conditions.
6. A …………waxy finish……………. on the beetle’s shell repels water and aids the formation of large droplets.
7. The Sahara Forest project utilized this concept in the design of a ……greenhouse…………………. 
8. The ‘Able Project’ uses………………worms……….  from the composting process as an input to the fish farm.
9. The extinction of one species of …………frogs……………has prevented scientists from finding a cure for excess
stomach acid.

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