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An Interactive Introduction to Organismal and Molecular Biology, 2021

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SYSTEMS THINKING AND THE CARBON CYCLE | 65<br />

The four spheres of Earth include the atmosphere (the air), biosphere (anything living, including organisms<br />

living in water), lithosphere (rocks, minerals, s<strong>and</strong>), <strong>and</strong> hydrosphere (marine <strong>and</strong> freshwater).<br />

The following activity will end with a carbon cycle that focuses on these four spheres.<br />

Exercise<br />

The following is a list of processes describing how carbon moves (i.e., the fluxes of the carbon cycle).<br />

Refer <strong>to</strong> the definitions of each of these processes while performing the activity below.<br />

<strong>An</strong> interactive or media element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can view it<br />

online here:<br />

https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/isb202/?p=153

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