The document discusses the four main spheres that support life on Earth: the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere. It explains that the biosphere is life itself, the hydrosphere is the water, the geosphere is the solid ground and rocks, and the atmosphere is the air. It argues that removing any one of these spheres would cause the system to crash and eliminate life, as each sphere relies on and influences the others for survival.
The document discusses the four main spheres that support life on Earth: the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere. It explains that the biosphere is life itself, the hydrosphere is the water, the geosphere is the solid ground and rocks, and the atmosphere is the air. It argues that removing any one of these spheres would cause the system to crash and eliminate life, as each sphere relies on and influences the others for survival.
The document discusses the four main spheres that support life on Earth: the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere. It explains that the biosphere is life itself, the hydrosphere is the water, the geosphere is the solid ground and rocks, and the atmosphere is the air. It argues that removing any one of these spheres would cause the system to crash and eliminate life, as each sphere relies on and influences the others for survival.
missing there would be no life. Fair enough. HYDROSPHERE is all the water of our planet. Most of this is in our oceans. The fraction that isn’t seawater is mostly locked in glaciers and ice caps or is in the ground. Only a tiny bit of our planet’s water is what we see in lakes, rivers, clouds, rain and living tissues. All life on Earth requires water. Without a hydrosphere, all life would die out and GEOSPHERE makes up the bulk of the mass of our planet. It’s the ground, the rocks. Mountains, volcanoes, sand, and pebbles. If all of this were to disappear, there wouldn’t be much of our planet left. Without the mass of the geosphere, the atmosphere would quickly escape into space. So would the hydrosphere. Without those, life doesn’t have much of a chance. Maybe a few microbes could survive on some bit of ice that remains, but not much else, if that. And the ATMOSPHERE of our planet is what we can air. It’s mostly Nitrogen and Oxygen with small amounts of Argon, Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Ozone, Methane and a few other gases. Life on Earth has heavily modified the atmosphere over the last four billion years. Because of life, oxygen and methane levels are far higher and carbon dioxide levels are far lower than they would be otherwise. Life relies on these gases and few life forms can survive without it. With that said, some ecosystems exist on the ocean floor that do not directly rely on the atmosphere. So I’m tempted to say that this is a sphere Earth could lose and still maintain life. Except for one problem. The atmosphere also provides atmospheric pressure. Without it, Earth would be in a vacuum. That’s bad for oceans because they would rapidly start boiling away. No oceans means no sea floor ecosystems. So, Everybody Dies in this case too.
Basically, life on Earth needs all of these spheres to
survive. It evolved to rely on them. You can’t just remove one without making the whole system crash.