EARTH 530
The Critical Zone

Summary and Final Tasks

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The Critical Zone is a complex system formed at the intersection of the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, and including soils. In this lesson, you've learned about system modeling and considered human impacts on the Critical Zone and soil and adaptive measures that society can take to sustain the Critical Zone and soil. You also attempted to qualitatively model the Critical Zone by considering the various processes within each component of the CZ and how they are linked to the other components.

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