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007skaty Rainwater washes rock minerals into oceans through the carbonate-silicate cycle, where coccolithophores use them to build calcium carbonate
007skaty Microscopic green plankton release gas that rises to form bright, sun-reflecting clouds.
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Ocean cloud makers: Marine algae produce a chemical that creates clouds to cool the ocean when it gets too hot, acting as Earth's natural air conditioner.
Which geological process works with rainwater and rocks to wash carbon-trapping minerals into the oceans?
What Greek goddess inspired the name of James Lovelock's theory of a self-regulating Earth?
What gas is released by marine phytoplankton to help form clouds and cool the Earth?
To prevent global forests from easily burning down, Earth's oxygen level has stayed near what percentage for millions of years?
Who co-developed the Gaia hypothesis alongside chemist James Lovelock in the 1970s?
What happens to the calcium carbonate shells of dead marine organisms over millions of years?