The biosphere
Life and the places it lives.
Life everywhere
Trees, shrubs, animals, insects and tiny organisms live on land, in water and in air.
What are all living beings and their places called together?
What this lesson covers
The idea
All living beings, together with the places where they live on land, in water and in air, make up the biosphere.
Life everywhere
Trees, shrubs, animals, insects and tiny organisms live on land, in water and in air.
What are all living beings and their places called together?
- The biosphere
- The hydrosphere
- The geosphere
Land, water, air
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Life and its places
All living beings, along with the places where they live, make up the biosphere. This includes land, water and air, where life interacts with its surroundings to survive and grow.
The biosphere = all living beings together with the places where they live: on land, in water and in air.
Notes
The biosphere = living beings and where they live (land, water, air).
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All living beings, along with the places where they live, make up the …
The biosphere includes life on …
Which of these is part of the biosphere?
In the biosphere, living things …
- biosphere — correct. Yes!
- hydrosphere. The hydrosphere is all the water.
- geosphere. The geosphere is the solid Earth.
- land only. It includes water and air too.
- land, in water and in air — correct. Yes!
- Mars. The biosphere is on Earth.
- A rock. A rock is not living (geosphere).
- A river's water. Water is hydrosphere. The fish in it are biosphere.
- A tree — correct. Yes!
- interact with their surroundings to survive and grow — correct. Yes!
- do not need anything. They interact with their surroundings.
- live apart from everything. They interact with their surroundings.