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Hydrosphere, the Glossary

Index Hydrosphere

The hydrosphere is the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a planet, minor planet, or natural satellite.[1]

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  1. 65 relations: A Greek–English Lexicon, Acid rain, Aquatic ecosystem, Aquifer, Atmosphere of Earth, Biosphere, Boulder, Colorado, Climate system, Closed system, Continental drift, Cryosphere, Cubic metre, Cyanobacteria, Earth, Earth's crust, Eduard Suess, Eutrophication, Evaporation, Evapotranspiration, Extraterrestrial liquid water, Fresh water, Glacier, Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, Gravity, Groundwater, History of life, Hydrology, Hydropower, Ice, Igor A. Shiklomanov, Lake, List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System, List of seas on Earth, Lithosphere, Marq de Villiers, Minor planet, National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Natural satellite, Ocean, Ocean acidification, Ocean world, Ogallala Aquifer, Pedosphere, Permafrost, Perseus Digital Library, Planet, Planetary surface, Polar ice cap, River, ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. Global natural environment
  3. Hydrogeology

A Greek–English Lexicon

A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott or Liddell–Scott–Jones (LSJ), is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language originally edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie and published in 1843 by the Oxford University Press.

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Acid rain

Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH).

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Aquatic ecosystem

An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem found in and around a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems. Hydrosphere and aquatic ecosystem are aquatic ecology and water.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt). Hydrosphere and aquifer are Hydrogeology and hydrology.

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Atmosphere of Earth

The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.

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Biosphere

The biosphere, also called the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is a home rule city in and the county seat of Boulder County, Colorado, United States.

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Climate system

Earth's climate system is a complex system with five interacting components: the atmosphere (air), the hydrosphere (water), the cryosphere (ice and permafrost), the lithosphere (earth's upper rocky layer) and the biosphere (living things).

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Closed system

A closed system is a natural physical system that does not allow transfer of matter in or out of the system, althoughin the contexts of physics, chemistry, engineering, etc.

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Continental drift

Continental drift is the hypothesis, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time.

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Cryosphere

The cryosphere is an umbrella term for those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form. Hydrosphere and cryosphere are hydrology.

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Cubic metre

The cubic metre (in Commonwealth English and international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or cubic meter (in American English) is the unit of volume in the International System of Units (SI).

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Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. Hydrosphere and Earth are Global natural environment.

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Earth's crust

Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume.

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Eduard Suess

Eduard Suess (20 August 1831 – 26 April 1914) was an Austrian geologist and an expert on the geography of the Alps.

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Eutrophication

Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water. Hydrosphere and Eutrophication are aquatic ecology.

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Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.

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Evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere. Hydrosphere and Evapotranspiration are hydrology.

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Extraterrestrial liquid water is water in its liquid state that naturally occurs outside Earth. Hydrosphere and Extraterrestrial liquid water are water.

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Fresh water

Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Hydrosphere and fresh water are aquatic ecology, hydrology and water.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

The Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in English.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. Hydrosphere and Groundwater are hydrology and water.

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History of life

The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day.

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Hydrology

Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources, and drainage basin sustainability. Hydrosphere and Hydrology are physical geography.

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Hydropower

Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. Hydrosphere and Hydropower are water.

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Ice

Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. Hydrosphere and ice are water.

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Igor A. Shiklomanov

Igor Alekseyevich Shiklomanov (Игорь Алексеевич Шикломанов; February 28, 1939, Tver Oblast – August 22, 2010, St. Petersburg) was a Russian hydrologist, Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Director of the Russian State Hydrological Institute from 1981, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (since 2001), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1999),http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/14028/ (in Russian) // Kremlin.ru Laureate of the 2001 International Hydrology Prize and of the 2006 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System

Listed below are the largest ocean, lakes and seas in the Solar System and beyond includes single bodies of water or other liquid on or near the surface of a solid round body (terrestrial planet, planetoid, or moon).

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List of seas on Earth

This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits.

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Lithosphere

A lithosphere is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite.

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Marq de Villiers

Marq de Villiers, is a South African-Canadian writer and journalist.

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Minor planet

According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.

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National Geophysical Data Center

The United States National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provided scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Natural satellite

A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another natural satellite).

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Ocean acidification

Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean. Hydrosphere and ocean acidification are aquatic ecology.

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Ocean world

An ocean world, ocean planet or water world is a type of planet that contains a substantial amount of water in the form of oceans, as part of its hydrosphere, either beneath the surface, as subsurface oceans, or on the surface, potentially submerging all dry land.

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Ogallala Aquifer

The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.

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Pedosphere

The pedosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth that is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes.

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Permafrost

Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.

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Perseus Digital Library

The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University.

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Planet

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.

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Planetary surface

A planetary surface is where the solid or liquid material of certain types of astronomical objects contacts the atmosphere or outer space.

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Polar ice cap

A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Ronald Greeley

Ronald Greeley (August 25, 1939 – October 27, 2011) was a Regents’ Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), and Principal Investigator of the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center.

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Saline water

Saline water (more commonly known as salt water) is water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts (mainly sodium chloride). Hydrosphere and Saline water are water.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). Hydrosphere and salinity are aquatic ecology.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Seafloor spreading

Seafloor spreading, or seafloor spread, is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.

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Solar energy

Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture.

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Solar irradiance

Solar irradiance is the power per unit area (surface power density) received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.

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Stream

A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Hydrosphere and stream are hydrology.

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Sublimation (phase transition)

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula. Hydrosphere and Water are hydrology.

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Water cycle

The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle), is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Hydrosphere and water cycle are hydrology and water.

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Water vapor

Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous phase of water.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods. Hydrosphere and wetland are aquatic ecology.

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See also

Global natural environment

Hydrogeology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrosphere

Also known as Earth’s Hydrosphere, Hidrosphere, Hydrosphere of Earth, Terrestrial Hydrosphere.

, Ronald Greeley, Saline water, Salinity, Salt, Seafloor spreading, Solar energy, Solar irradiance, Stream, Sublimation (phase transition), Tonne, United States Geological Survey, Water, Water cycle, Water vapor, Wetland.