What Makes Up The Hydrosphere

hydrosphere

A hydrosphere is the total amount of water on a planet. The hydrosphere includes water that is on the surface of the planet, hole-and-corner, and in the air.

Subjects

Chemical science, Globe Science, Geography, Concrete Geography

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Morgan Stanley

A hydrosphere is the total amount of water on a planet. The hydrosphere includes water that is on the surface of the planet, undercover, and in the air. A planet's hydrosphere can be liquid, vapor, or ice.

On Earth, liquid h2o exists on the surface in the form of oceans, lakes and rivers. Information technology also exists beneath footing—every bit groundwater, in wells and aquifers. Water vapor is most visible as clouds and fog.

The frozen part of Earth's hydrosphere is made of ice: glaciers, ice caps and icebergs. The frozen part of the hydrosphere has its own proper name, the cryosphere.

H2o moves through the hydrosphere in a cycle. Water collects in clouds, and so falls to Earth in the course of rain or snowfall. This water collects in rivers, lakes and oceans. Then it evaporates into the atmosphere to start the bike all over again. This is chosen the water cycle.

Vocabulary

Term	Part of speech	Definition
aquifer	substantive	an underground layer of stone or world which holds groundwater.
atmosphere	noun	layers of gases surrounding a planet or other angelic trunk.
deject	substantive	visible mass of tiny water aerosol or water ice crystals in World's atmosphere.
cryosphere	noun	icy part of the Earth'due south waterincluding icebergs, glaciers, and ice caps.
Globe	noun	our planet, the third from the Sun. The Earth is the only identify in the known universe that supports life.
Europa	noun	moon of Jupiter.
evaporate	verb	to change from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
fog	noun	clouds at basis level.
glacier	noun	mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
groundwater	noun	h2o plant in an aquifer.
hydrosphere	substantive	all the World's water in the ground, on the surface, and in the air.
ice	noun	h2o in its solid form.
iceberg	noun	large chunks of ice that interruption off from glaciers and float in the body of water.
ice cap	substantive	surface area of fewer than 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles) covered by water ice.
Jupiter	substantive	largest planet in the solar system, the fifth planet from the Dominicus.
lake	noun	body of h2o surrounded by land.
liquid	noun	state of affair with no fixed shape and molecules that remain loosely bound with each other.
body of water	noun	large body of salt water that covers most of the Earth.
planet	substantive	large, spherical celestial body that regularly rotates effectually a star.
pelting	substantive	liquid precipitation.
river	noun	big stream of flowing fresh water.
snowfall	noun	atmospheric precipitation made of water ice crystals.
vapor	noun	visible liquid suspended in the air, such as fog.
water cycle	noun	movement of water between temper, land, and ocean.
well	noun	a hole drilled in the World to obtain a liquid or gaseous substance.