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n. - The regions of the surface and air of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist.

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  • As Dyson points out, the biosphere is the single most complex system we study and weather is a continuously changing process.
  • All of earth's biosphere is actually one life form.
  • Everything in the biosphere is contained between them.
  • No amount of CO2 in the biosphere is by itself of any harm to any living thing (unless you replaced all the oxygen in doing so).
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