It’s the release of harmful gases e.g. carbon dioxide into the environment due to human activity, therefore causing a rise in global temperatures, which is climate change. Warmer temperatures negatively impact our environment because it causes a decrease in biodiversity, allows more diseases to spread(most live in warmer temp.) and so on.
I think that the best phrase to fit into the blank is a "scientific theory".
A scientific theory is developed through experiments which use the scientific method, and a theory can be improved if additional data is available or if people provide suggestions which make the theory fit the data better.
The photoreceptors would be your eyes, chemoreceptors skin, olfactory for nose and mechanoreceptors for obviously tongue hope this helps.
These dark areas are called maria. They are thought to be formed by volcanic eruptions in the moon's history.hope this helped:)