ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Question
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A model of a sphere that looks like Earth
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The sum of all living matter on Earth
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A group of organisms
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A small part of the Earth
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Detailed explanation-1: -The biosphere is made up of the parts of Earth where life exists. The biosphere extends from the deepest root systems of trees, to the dark environment of ocean trenches, to lush rainforests and high mountaintops. Scientists describe Earth in terms of spheres. The solid surface layer of Earth is the lithosphere.
Detailed explanation-2: -Geochemists define the biosphere as being the total sum of living organisms (the “biomass” or “biota” as referred to by biologists and ecologists). In this sense, the biosphere is but one of four separate components of the geochemical model, the other three being geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sum of all the ecosystems of the world. It is both the collection of organisms living on the Earth and the space that they occupy on part of the Earth’s crust (the lithosphere), in the oceans (the hydrosphere) and in the atmosphere. The biosphere is all the planet’s ecosystems.
Detailed explanation-4: -(vii) What is a biosphere? Answer: Biosphere or the living world is the narrow zone of earth where land, water and air interact with each other to support life. The plant and animal kingdoms together form the biosphere.
Detailed explanation-5: -What is the biosphere? The biosphere is the thin life-supporting stratum of Earth’s surface, extending from a few kilometres into the atmosphere to the deep-sea vents of the ocean. It is composed of living organisms and nonliving factors from which the organisms derive energy and nutrients.