1) Includes water vapor 2) Layer
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all the Earth's water; this would include water found in the sea, streams, lakes and other waterbodies, the soil, groundwater, and in the air.
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The hydrosphere (from Greek ὕδωρ - hydōr, `water` and σφαῖρα - sphaira, `sphere`) in physical geography describes the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. Igor Shiklomanov, the man selected by the United Nations to do its world inventory of water resources, estimated that there are 1386 million...
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• (n.) The aqueous envelope of the earth, including the ocean, all lakes, streams, and underground waters, and the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere. • (n.) The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.
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The water on or around the surface of a planet.
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discontinuous layer of water at or near the Earth`s surface. It includes all liquid and frozen surface waters, groundwater held in soil and rock, and ... [7 related articles]
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This is the broad name for the water above, on or in the earths crust, including oceans, seas, lakes, ground water, and atmospheric moisture.
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<biology> This is the broad name for the water above, on or in the earth's crust, including oceans, seas, lakes, ground water, and atmospheric moisture. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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The totality of water encompassing the Earth, comprising all the bodies of water, ice, and water vapor in the atmosphere.
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The part of the Earth composed of water including clouds, oceans, seas, ice caps, glaciers, lakes, rivers, underground water supplies, and atmospheric water vapor.
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This is the broad name for the water above, on or in the earth's crust, including oceans, seas, lakes, ground water, and atmospheric moisture.
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Hy'dro·sphere noun [ Prefix
hydro- , 1 +
sphere .]
1. (Meteor.) The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.
2. (Physics Geology) The aqueous envelope of the earth, including the ocean, all lakes, streams, and underground waters, and the aqueous vapor in the...
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The Earth's water.
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The hydrosphere describes the waters of the Earth. Water exists on the Earth in various stores, including the: atmosphere, oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, snowfields and groundwater. Water moves from one store to another by way of: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, deposition, runoff, infiltration, sublimation, transpiration, and groundwat...
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all the Earth's water; this would include water found in the sea, streams, lakes and other waterbodies, the soil, groundwater, and in the air.
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all the components of water present on the Earth, including bodies of water, water vapor, ice, etc.
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The water of the earth, ocean lakes, rivers and glaciers that cover about three-fourths of the earth’s surface.
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n] - the watery layer of the earth`s surface
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hydrosphere 1. The water portion of the earth or biosphere; as distinguished from the solid part (lithosphere) and from the gaseous outer envelope (atmosphere). 2. The portion of the earth that is water, including liquid water, ice, and water vapor on the surface, underground, or in the atmosphere.
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The aqueous envelope of the Earth, including the oceans, freshwater lakes, rivers, saline lakes and inland seas, soil moisture and vadose water, groundwaters, and atmospheric vapor.
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All the water on the surface of a planet. See also: Atmosphere.
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Portion of the Earth made of water, ice, and water vapour, including the oceans, seas, rivers, streams, swamps, lakes, groundwater, and atmospheric water vapour. In some cases its definition is extended to include the water locked up in the Earth's crust and mantle
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The part of the physical environment that consists of all the liquid and solid water at or near the Earth's surface.
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the water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere.
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