The oceans affect the biosphere in all of the following ways except a. producing a substantial amount of the biosphere's oxygen. b. removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. c. moderating the climate of terrestrial biomes. d. regulating the pH of freshwater biomes and terrestrial groundwater.

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Welcome back. Here's our next question. The ocean serves many purposes, such as carbon storage, flood control, shoreline stabilization and diversity maintenance. These are examples of our choices, our cultural services regulating services, aesthetic services, recreational services. Well as we look at our choices, uh the ocean can serve culture, aesthetics, It's beautiful recreation. Um but we're talking about things like carbon storage, flood control, shoreline stabilization. These are examples of choice be regulating services. And that's because the all these services help to regulate the natural environment and moderate natural phenomenon. So the ocean helps moderate natural phenomena like floods and shoreline erosion, and it helps regulate the natural environment. So that would be a carbon storage and things like diversity maintenance. So all these are examples of ways in which the ocean serves to regulate things. So our answer choice B regulating services is the correct answer. See you in the next video.