biosphere
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈbaɪəˌsfɪr/
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biosfera
- During the next few decades, the biosphere is widely perceived to be threatened by cumulative environmental stressors.
- Biosphere Reserve
- protect the biosphere
- function of the biosphere
We're part of a biosphere that sustains us.
- We're part of a biosphere that sustains us.
- And to do no harm to the biosphere, take nothing, do no harm.
- So the idea was we needed to harvest cocaine plants, put them in these little biospheres, we needed to bring them back.
- We thrive when we have sustainable practices that support the biosphere from the cell all the way to Mother Earth.
- And I would be absolutely fine as long as that biodiversity and that biosphere was functioning well and was healthy.
- And so we're learning more about our own biospheres and the diversity of our own life here on Earth.
- So you you mentioned that the human brain, the economy and the biosphere are three of the most complex systems we know, OK.
- Let's start by just simply, we use our data set to to literally understand how much plant growth there is in the biosphere.
- But all that says is that it's OK for the entropy of the biosphere to either go up or down.
Examples
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We thrive when we have sustainable practices that support the biosphere from the cell all the way to Mother Earth.
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They should be used to protect the balance of the biosphere.
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So it's about the delicate biosphere that we are a part of.
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And to do no harm to the biosphere, take nothing, do no harm.
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"The main concern here is that the whole biosphere may be endangered.
Fiction book (2000) -
And we're replacing more and more of the biosphere with non living things.
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We're part of a biosphere that sustains us.
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And these together constitute the biosphere-- the biosphere that supports and nurtures all of life.
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Now, evidence is accumulating that we are altering the biosphere in many ways.
Academic text (1992) -
The biosphere includes all the ecosystems where life is found on Earth.
Synonyms
1
6.5
All living things on Earth and the natural places where they live considered as one system
How Big
31
5.3
- Specialized
2
6.9
- Specialized
98
3.4
- Specialized
174
3.0
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Biosphere comes from Greek parts bio- meaning 'life' and -sphere meaning 'ball' or 'globe', like the familiar word sphere. So the biosphere is the part of the Earth, including land, air, and water, where living things exist.