Write a short note about oxygen cycle?
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The oxygen cycle is the cycle that helps move oxygen through the three main regions of the Earth, the Atmosphere, the Biosphere, and the Lithosphere. The Atmosphere is of course the region of gases that lies above the Earth's surface and it is one of the largest reservoirs of free oxygen on earth.
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Main reservoirs and fluxes (in unit 1012 mol/yr) of the modern global O2 cycle on Earth. There are four main reservoirs: terrestrial biosphere (green), marine biosphere (blue), lithosphere (brown), and atmosphere (grey). The major fluxes between these reservoirs are shown in colored arrows, where the green arrows are related to the terrestrial biosphere, blue arrows are related to the marine biosphere, black arrows are related to the lithosphere, purple arrow is related to space (not a reservoir, but also contributes to the atmospheric O2).[1] The value of photosynthesis or net primary productivity (NPP) can be estimated through the variation in the abundance and isotopic composition of atmospheric O2.[2][3] The rate of organic carbon burial was derived from estimated fluxes of volcanic and hydrothermal carbon.[4]