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Early Earth Microbes May Have Eaten Raw Meteorites

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This video talks about how tiny living things called microbes might have eaten rocks from space! These early microbes were super tough and could survive on anything they could find. Some scientists even tested if microbes could eat meteorites, which are pieces of space rock!

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🧠 Quiz & Trivia

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Q1 What do we call microbes that eat rocks?

Answer: Lithotrophs

Q2 What kind of rock did scientists test with microbes?

Answer: Basalt

Q3 What happened to the microbes when they ate a heat-treated meteorite?

Answer: They died.

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