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Earth system

Appears in 10 processs and 23 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.

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Earth's Systems

6 steps

Energy flow
Water cycle
Carbon cycling
and 3 more in this process

Energy flow

3 steps

Water cycle

3 steps

Carbon cycling

2 steps

Nutrient cycling

2 steps

Geological cycling

2 steps

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Biological processes

2 steps

Heat redistribution by air and ocean

1 step

Tropics gain more energy than they lose, poles lose more than they gain

Silicate weathering rate control and CO2 drawdown

1 step

Weathering consumes atmospheric CO2 (roughly 0.1-0.3 Gt C per year globally for silicates)

White-rot and brown-rot fungi: two routes to lignin and cellulose decay

1 step

Hypothesis: class II peroxidases arose about 295 million years ago, coinciding with the end of major coal formation (competing explanations exist)

Often found with

Sun 2 Sunlight 2 Heat 2 Water 1 Soil water 1 Carbon dioxide 1 Bicarbonate 1 Agaricomycetes 1 Lignin 1 Carbon 1 Ocean 1 Land surface 1

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