II. Tick (V) right statements, cross (X) wrong

1. The biosphere is not the surface zone of the Earth and adjacent atmosphere. 2. The biosphere includes the high part of the atmosphere. 3. The biosphere includes the entire hydrosphere up to its maximum height. 4 According to V.I.Vernadsky the biosphere is the "field of the existence of living matter". 5. According to "Britanica encyclopedia", the biosphere is the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors. 6. The biosphere is not complex in composition, construction and organization. 7. Biotic factors act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival. 8. Academician V.I.Vernadsky is not the originator of the modern theory of biosphere. 9. Migration of chemical elements in the biosphere is associated with the vital functions of living organisms, their nutrition, death, and decay. 10. The living matter changes the construction of all chemical elements and acts as a geological process. 11. The biosphere of the Earth becomes, as defined by E.Paton, the noosphere, a sphere of mind. 12. The noosphere, as proposed by scientific theorists, is the level of the intellect.

III. Complete the statements:

The biosphere includes the low part of the atmosphere, the entire hydrosphere down to its maximum..., soils, and the lithosphere.