ESPM 2 Midterm 1 exam | Questions and Verified Solutions | Latest Update 2024/2025

ESPM 2 Midterm 1 exam | Questions and Verified Solutions | Latest Update 2024/2025 Biosphere Defined by? What is it? - Answer -Defined by the spatial extent of life on Earth. A thin envelop around Earth, from the edge of space to someplace several kilometer in the crust (full extent not fully known). Who coined the term Biosphere? Discussed By? - Answer -Termed coined by Suess, but fully examined and discussed by Vladimir Vernadsky, the great Russian scientist. What make the study of the 'biosphere' exciting and important? - Answer -What make the study of the 'biosphere' exciting and important is the realization of the complex interactions and feedbacks that occur between various forms of life and their physical surroundings How does the biosphere operate? Termed what by who? Great debate? (3)Type of behavior? - Answer -In some ways, biosphere operates like a giant complex organism. This was termed "GAIA" by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. The great debate about this idea is how self-regulating the biosphere really is, how much life creates new habitat for life, and other details. However, it is virtually unanimous that the biosphere has a complex behavior that makes it "much more than the sum of its parts" What interaction has impacted what? What has life affected? The ____ atmosphere and ____ layer due to? Our major rocks are result of? ex? Snake like rivers result from? - Answer -The life-earth interaction has likely impacted both