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Terrestrial in sentence

89 examples of Terrestrial in a sentence

It is terrestrial skinning.
They're prophecy for the kind of seismic, terrestrial effects of the math that we're making.
You can find spiders in nearly every terrestrial habitat.
The boreal forest sequesters more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem.
For the sake of the planet we live on, for the sake of our children, for the sake of all the other organisms that share our planet with us, we are a terrestrial animal, and we depend on our land for food.
So as terrestrial beings, we're very familiar with the plants on land: the trees, the grasses, the pastures, the crops.
We need a terrestrial planet in that just right "Goldilocks zone," where water flows as a liquid.
Together, this helps us understand whether these planets are small and rocky, like the terrestrial planets in our own Solar System, and also how much light they receive from their parent sun.
This is the lowland tapir, the tapir species I work with, the largest terrestrial mammal of South America.
In the olden days, explorers like Vasco da Gama and Columbus had the good fortune to open up the terrestrial globe.
But in real-life terrestrial ecosystems, less than 10% of plant matter is eaten while it's still alive.
All of these uneaten, undigested, and dead plant parts, that 90% of terrestrial plant matter?
And in fact, the modern salamander is very close to the first terrestrial vertebrate, so it's almost a living fossil, which gives us access to our ancestor, the ancestor to all terrestrial tetrapods.
In the austral summer of 2004, I went to the bottom of South America, to the bottom of Patagonia, Argentina, to prospect for dinosaurs: a place that had terrestrial sedimentary rocks of the right age, in a desert, a place that had been barely visited by paleontologists.
This machine would be capable of waging war, whether terrestrial or cyber, with unprecedented power.
These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.
This is one of the world's largest terrestrial carbon sinks, processing millions of carbon every single year.
They have about half the skeletal muscle of a terrestrial mammal.
SETI doesn't presume the existence of extra terrestrial intelligence; it merely notes the possibility, if not the probability in this vast universe, which seems fairly uniform.
Now Drake did not discover extraterrestrial intelligence, but he learned a very valuable lesson from a passing aircraft, and that's that terrestrial technology can interfere with the search for extraterrestrial technology.
Up in the corner, the terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
This is terrestrial chemistry.
On the back there is scales and measurements for terrestrial navigation.
In reality, these animals have no terrestrial counterpart; they're unique in the world.
It's an ocean planet, and we think of ourselves as a terrestrial species, but the pyramid of life in the ocean and our own lives on land are intricately connected.
Here's what he said: "Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of agriculture, human population, plus livestock and pets, was approximately a tenth of one percent of the terrestrial vertebrate landmass."
I can't help but forget that incredible scene in Alien, when the extra terrestrial burst out of one of the men's chest.
I had envisioned teams of terrified miners scampering for their lives in the cavernous confines of their workplace, praying that Black Lung Disease would get them before The Grim Reaper exacted his grisly revenge, but instead I got terrestrial twenty-somethings fornicating--and, in one case, defecating--in the woods, a gang of morons with a collective I.Q. that would have difficulty pulling a plastic ring out of a box of Cracker Jacks, much less a buried treasure from an abandoned mine.
Now the television schedules (in England, at least) are crammed with home improvement, bargain-hunting, house-hunting and cookery shows in the afternoons, the chances of any of the terrestrial broadcasters digging out a complete obscurity like this to occupy a couple of hours of screen time on a slow afternoon are slender, to say the least.
It's an enjoyable 90 minutes, demands little of the viewer, and delivers as much, and on any terrestrial television channel even in a prime time slot I think that Rabbit Fever would be rather well received.
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