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Biosphere

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means the regions of the earth's surface and atmosphere occupied by living organisms
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Stage 1 of 2
bios
Greek · ancient
"life"
life, combined with sphaira (sphere), for the zone of life on earth
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Stage 2 of 2
biosphere
English · 1899
"the global sum of all living ecosystems"
coined by geologists for the global sum of all ecosystems
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