AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -relating to the planet earth, or living or existing on the land rather than in the sea or air: Newton investigated terrestrial and celestial motion.

Detailed explanation-2: - of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants 2 : living or growing on land 3 : belonging to a class of planets that are like the earth (as in density and silicate composition)

Detailed explanation-3: -Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -of or relating to the earth or this world; worldly; mundane.

Detailed explanation-5: -The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like Earth’s terra firma. The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system.