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Query:

Subject: Why doesn't the earth's oxygen/carbon dioxide ever get out of balance?

Date: Thu Oct 9 20:01:31 1997
Posted by Aussie Meyer
Grade level: undergrad
School: none
City: Houston State/Province: TX
Country: USA
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 876445291.Es
Message:
Okay, I've always wondered about this.  Surely in some eras the plants 
get ahead of the animals or vice versa - so why doesn't the oxygen or 
the CO2 start accumulating and getting one or the other form of 
life gasping?

Re: Why doesn't the earth's oxygen/carbon dioxide ever get out of balance?

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