Definition of biosphere in English:

biosphere

noun ˈbʌɪə(ʊ)sfɪəˈbaɪəˌsfɪr

1The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or another planet occupied by living organisms.
生物圈
Example sentencesExamples
- He touches on the lives of many scientists, some famous and some forgotten, who have studied the earth and the biospheres of Indonesia.
- The system of universes could be even more intricate and complex than the biosphere of our planet.
- Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans.
- He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere.
- So man is now changing the planet, for the better, just as living processes improved the planet, so man by acting on the biosphere improves the planet.
- As a science, ecology describes the interrelationships between organisms and environments - that is, the experience of living together in the biosphere.
- The storage of sulfur in the various compartments of Earth and its biosphere, and the many transfers occurring among them, is referred to as the sulfur cycle.
- Even most of earth is lifeless once you get past the thin film of the biosphere on the surface.
- The second reason is that it's the mixing place between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
- He looked at this problem of living processes in the biosphere from that standpoint.
- Another major biological feature often considered as organized hierarchically is the pattern of distribution and association of organisms in the biosphere.
- However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
- And therefore, humanity, which comes into the picture with cognition, depends upon this living part of the planet, the so-called biosphere.
- Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere during the past few hundred years.
- If we catch it, the potential to expand the biosphere beyond Earth to the rim of the solar system and beyond can be realized.
- The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism.
- This is a long, long way from saying that this galaxy is full of planets with biospheres even remotely comparable to ours.
- In certain areas, mankind is presently consuming these mineral resources more rapidly than they are being transmitted from the interior of the planet to the biosphere.
- Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
- The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms.
2An artificial structure enclosing a self-contained ecosystem or ecosystems.
人造生物圈
the elliptical domed biosphere is the largest single-span glasshouse in the world
Example sentencesExamples
- Moreover, a successful biosphere would prove to be an important step in the direction of space colonization, terraforming and remedial ecology.
- These brave soldiers will be maintained in self-contained biospheres, like giant lizards from another star, which given the moral status of their behavior, they might as well be.
- The second were generation ships, which had self-contained biospheres where the crew was not in stasis pods, but alive.
- Living outside the biosphere are mostly transmigrants and the indigenous people that capitalists from the city often hire to fell trees in the forest.
- In Arizona, scientists built an artificial biosphere, called Biosphere 2.
- Examples of places where a biosphere might be built include the moon, other moons of the solar system, and planets such as Mars.
- An artificial biosphere should have different zones that represent different parts of an ecosystem.
- But biosphere is also the name of a man-made and sealed environment, which simulates the earth's biosphere.
- And we haven't even been able to set up workable biospheres on Earth, let alone in space.
- A space station is a biosphere that provides basic human needs (ie, oxygen, food, water) to sustain life.
- Machines would be used only to sterilize and purify water that has already been cycled through the artificial biosphere.
- Conventional futurist wisdom suggests that if our atmosphere should completely go to pot which it certainly appears to be doing humans could still eek out an existence living in self-sustaining biospheres.

Derivatives

biospheric

adjective

Most biospheric carbon is already in the oceans anyway, and they can take a good deal more.
Example sentencesExamples
- Smil's unique biospheric narrative, devoid of hype and patriotism, transcends academic apartheid.
- Trees are necessary to human life not just because they are powerhouses of basic biospheric processes.
- The observational record from Mauna Lao since the International Geophysical Year in 1957/8 shows an increase, but what is lost in this record is the increased flux sequestered by the ocean and the terrestrial biospheric carbon pools.
- Earth observing satellites are paving the way to find out if these biospheric responses are going to hold for the future, ‘adds Steve Running, another co-author from the University of Montana.’
- He analyzed and noted a remarkable homeostasis of atmospheric composition and surface temperature over the past three billion years, and concluded that this could only be attributed to a biospheric regulatory mechanism.
- If anyone should be indignant, we should be - for failing to force the North to tighten its belt and pay for the biospheric damage it has caused to date.

Origin

Late 19th century: coined in German from Greek bios 'life' + sphaira (see sphere).

Definition of biosphere in US English:

biosphere

nounˈbaɪəˌsfɪrˈbīəˌsfir

The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
生物圈
Example sentencesExamples
- He touches on the lives of many scientists, some famous and some forgotten, who have studied the earth and the biospheres of Indonesia.
- Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans.
- Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
- Another major biological feature often considered as organized hierarchically is the pattern of distribution and association of organisms in the biosphere.
- If we catch it, the potential to expand the biosphere beyond Earth to the rim of the solar system and beyond can be realized.
- He looked at this problem of living processes in the biosphere from that standpoint.
- The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms.
- The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism.
- Even most of earth is lifeless once you get past the thin film of the biosphere on the surface.
- And therefore, humanity, which comes into the picture with cognition, depends upon this living part of the planet, the so-called biosphere.
- However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
- As a science, ecology describes the interrelationships between organisms and environments - that is, the experience of living together in the biosphere.
- The system of universes could be even more intricate and complex than the biosphere of our planet.
- In certain areas, mankind is presently consuming these mineral resources more rapidly than they are being transmitted from the interior of the planet to the biosphere.
- The storage of sulfur in the various compartments of Earth and its biosphere, and the many transfers occurring among them, is referred to as the sulfur cycle.
- So man is now changing the planet, for the better, just as living processes improved the planet, so man by acting on the biosphere improves the planet.
- The second reason is that it's the mixing place between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
- He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere.
- This is a long, long way from saying that this galaxy is full of planets with biospheres even remotely comparable to ours.
- Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere during the past few hundred years.

Origin

Late 19th century: coined in German from Greek bios ‘life’ + sphaira (see sphere).

词汇	biosphere
释义	Definition of biosphere in English: biosphere noun ˈbʌɪə(ʊ)sfɪəˈbaɪəˌsfɪr 1The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or another planet occupied by living organisms. 生物圈 Example sentencesExamples He touches on the lives of many scientists, some famous and some forgotten, who have studied the earth and the biospheres of Indonesia. The system of universes could be even more intricate and complex than the biosphere of our planet. Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans. He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere. So man is now changing the planet, for the better, just as living processes improved the planet, so man by acting on the biosphere improves the planet. As a science, ecology describes the interrelationships between organisms and environments - that is, the experience of living together in the biosphere. The storage of sulfur in the various compartments of Earth and its biosphere, and the many transfers occurring among them, is referred to as the sulfur cycle. Even most of earth is lifeless once you get past the thin film of the biosphere on the surface. The second reason is that it's the mixing place between the biosphere and the atmosphere. He looked at this problem of living processes in the biosphere from that standpoint. Another major biological feature often considered as organized hierarchically is the pattern of distribution and association of organisms in the biosphere. However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere. And therefore, humanity, which comes into the picture with cognition, depends upon this living part of the planet, the so-called biosphere. Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere during the past few hundred years. If we catch it, the potential to expand the biosphere beyond Earth to the rim of the solar system and beyond can be realized. The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism. This is a long, long way from saying that this galaxy is full of planets with biospheres even remotely comparable to ours. In certain areas, mankind is presently consuming these mineral resources more rapidly than they are being transmitted from the interior of the planet to the biosphere. Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier. The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms. 2An artificial structure enclosing a self-contained ecosystem or ecosystems. 人造生物圈 the elliptical domed biosphere is the largest single-span glasshouse in the world Example sentencesExamples Moreover, a successful biosphere would prove to be an important step in the direction of space colonization, terraforming and remedial ecology. These brave soldiers will be maintained in self-contained biospheres, like giant lizards from another star, which given the moral status of their behavior, they might as well be. The second were generation ships, which had self-contained biospheres where the crew was not in stasis pods, but alive. Living outside the biosphere are mostly transmigrants and the indigenous people that capitalists from the city often hire to fell trees in the forest. In Arizona, scientists built an artificial biosphere, called Biosphere 2. Examples of places where a biosphere might be built include the moon, other moons of the solar system, and planets such as Mars. An artificial biosphere should have different zones that represent different parts of an ecosystem. But biosphere is also the name of a man-made and sealed environment, which simulates the earth's biosphere. And we haven't even been able to set up workable biospheres on Earth, let alone in space. A space station is a biosphere that provides basic human needs (ie, oxygen, food, water) to sustain life. Machines would be used only to sterilize and purify water that has already been cycled through the artificial biosphere. Conventional futurist wisdom suggests that if our atmosphere should completely go to pot which it certainly appears to be doing humans could still eek out an existence living in self-sustaining biospheres. Derivatives biospheric adjective Most biospheric carbon is already in the oceans anyway, and they can take a good deal more. Example sentencesExamples Smil's unique biospheric narrative, devoid of hype and patriotism, transcends academic apartheid. Trees are necessary to human life not just because they are powerhouses of basic biospheric processes. The observational record from Mauna Lao since the International Geophysical Year in 1957/8 shows an increase, but what is lost in this record is the increased flux sequestered by the ocean and the terrestrial biospheric carbon pools. Earth observing satellites are paving the way to find out if these biospheric responses are going to hold for the future, ‘adds Steve Running, another co-author from the University of Montana.’ He analyzed and noted a remarkable homeostasis of atmospheric composition and surface temperature over the past three billion years, and concluded that this could only be attributed to a biospheric regulatory mechanism. If anyone should be indignant, we should be - for failing to force the North to tighten its belt and pay for the biospheric damage it has caused to date. Origin Late 19th century: coined in German from Greek bios 'life' + sphaira (see sphere). Definition of biosphere in US English: biosphere nounˈbaɪəˌsfɪrˈbīəˌsfir The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms. 生物圈 Example sentencesExamples He touches on the lives of many scientists, some famous and some forgotten, who have studied the earth and the biospheres of Indonesia. Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans. Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier. Another major biological feature often considered as organized hierarchically is the pattern of distribution and association of organisms in the biosphere. If we catch it, the potential to expand the biosphere beyond Earth to the rim of the solar system and beyond can be realized. He looked at this problem of living processes in the biosphere from that standpoint. The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms. The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism. Even most of earth is lifeless once you get past the thin film of the biosphere on the surface. And therefore, humanity, which comes into the picture with cognition, depends upon this living part of the planet, the so-called biosphere. However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere. As a science, ecology describes the interrelationships between organisms and environments - that is, the experience of living together in the biosphere. The system of universes could be even more intricate and complex than the biosphere of our planet. In certain areas, mankind is presently consuming these mineral resources more rapidly than they are being transmitted from the interior of the planet to the biosphere. The storage of sulfur in the various compartments of Earth and its biosphere, and the many transfers occurring among them, is referred to as the sulfur cycle. So man is now changing the planet, for the better, just as living processes improved the planet, so man by acting on the biosphere improves the planet. The second reason is that it's the mixing place between the biosphere and the atmosphere. He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere. This is a long, long way from saying that this galaxy is full of planets with biospheres even remotely comparable to ours. Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere during the past few hundred years. Origin Late 19th century: coined in German from Greek bios ‘life’ + sphaira (see sphere).
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