The earths systems and the bioshere

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biosphere

all living things

the global sum of all ecosytems, a self driving system

driven by sunlight, radiation and internal heat

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atmosphere

mixture of gases surrounding the planet

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geosphere

earhts crust mantle and core

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hydrosphere

all water

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the biosphere concept

  • Vladamir Vernadsky (1926)

  • life reshapes the planet as strongly as physical forces

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biome

an intercontinental formation of similar climate and vegetation

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determinats of biome location

  • temperature

  • precipitation

  • soils

  • species

  • history/chance

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key terrestial biomes

  • tropical forest

  • savanna

  • dessert

  • grassland

  • tundra

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whittaker diagrams

match biomes to temp/rainfall