Ecologically, a biosphere is a planetary stratum that includes the interactive portions of all abiotic factors and living organisms on the planet. The Earth's hydrosphere, for instance, includes all entities of water on the planet, like the oceans, streams, rivers, clouds, and lakes. The ...
Within the biosphere, organisms develop evolutionary and nutrient related relationships with one another. Besides the obvious relationship between some organisms such as a panther and a deer as predator and prey, some organisms develop different sorts of symbiotic relationships. Symbiosis is a type of ...
What are examples of protists that play significant roles in the biosphere? Which organism is not photoautotrophic: protist, monera, or fungi? What do all complex multicellular organisms have in common? Give an example of a prokaryote. How are unicellular and multicellular organisms different? Wha...
Being a plant, clover is the producer of this food chain and hence sits at the bottom of the pyramid. Energy is lost to the environment as you go up from one level to the next. That means there are fewer organisms at each step in this food chain. There is a need for plenty of cl...
Water is a common link to all the biomes. It makes up thelargestpart of the biosphere and occupies75%of Earth’s surface. Freshwater is a region that is defined by low salt concentration, namely less than1%.The different types of freshwater regions include ponds, lakes, rivers and wetlands...
Greenhouse Gases Lessons Greenhouse Gases Lesson Plan Biosphere & Ocean Absorption of Greenhouse Gases What are Greenhouse Gases? - Lesson for KidsLesson Transcript Instructors Jayashree Raman View bio Elizabeth Friedl View bio Explore greenhouses gases. Learn the definition of greenhouses gases and ...
Organisms Population Community Ecosystem Biome BiosphereThe Human Body How is the human body organized? The levels of structural organization in the human body start with atoms, as all matter on Earth is made of these. There are several elements in particular that makeup living things:View...
Earth is massive enough to hold its entire biosphere, atmosphere and all of human civilization on its surface, purely because of gravity. Gravity holds the planet itself together. In deep time, billions of years ago, gravity gathered the dust, rock and other elements that would eventually ...