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    The hydrosphere describes all water on Earth, including oceans, atmosphere, and land. Water is unique to Earth and essential for life. About 70% of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, while 30% is land. Water is constantly circulating through various processes like evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and collection in a cycle driven by solar energy.

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    Hydro Sphere

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    The hydrosphere describes all water on Earth, including oceans, atmosphere, and land. Water is unique to Earth and essential for life. About 70% of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, while 30% is land. Water is constantly circulating through various processes like evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and collection in a cycle driven by solar energy.

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    The liquid portion of the Earth.

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    The hydrosphere describes all water on Earth, including oceans, atmosphere, and land. Water is unique to Earth and essential for life. About 70% of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, while 30% is land. Water is constantly circulating through various processes like evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and collection in a cycle driven by solar energy.

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    HYDROSPHERE

    WATER EARTH
    HYDROSPHERE
    • 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.
    • Water on Earth is a unique feature that clearly
    distinguishes our “Blue Planet” from others in the solar
    system
    • Water is the universal solvent and the basis of all life on
    our Planet.
    HYDROSPHERE
    • Not a drop of liquid water can be found anywhere else in
    the solar system. Earth has just the right mass, the right
    chemical composition, the right atmosphere, and is the
    right distance from the Sun that permits water to exist
    mainly as a liquid.
    • Natural water of the Earth form the hydrosphere. It
    includes the oceans, water, land (rivers, lakes, snow
    cover and glaciers), groundwater and atmospheric
    water as well as water living organisms.
    Percentage of Earth’s Surface Covered
    by Land and Water
    • Approximately 70% of
    the Earth’s surface is
    water

    • Approximately 30% of
    the Earth’s surface is
    land
    PERCENTAGE OF WATER ON EARTH
    FORMS OF WATER
    SOLID LIQUID GAS

    Frost Cloud Water


    Vapor
    Rain
    Snow
    Mist Steam
    Ice Dew
    Fog
    Stream
    IMPORTANCE OF WATER
    • Water is the most important part of living cells.
    • Human needs.
    • Water provides habitat
    • Regulates climate
    WATER CYCLE
    • Water is in constant motion.
    • The characteristics of the ocean which affects its
    motion are its temperature and salinity.
    • Water, which covers the majority of the Earth's surface
    (the hydrosphere), circulates through the crust,
    oceans, and atmosphere in what is known as the
    water cycle.
    • The Sun provides water cycle’s energy
    EVAPORATION
    • Evaporation is when
    the sun heats up water
    in rivers or lakes or the
    ocean and turns it into
    vapor or steam. The
    water vapor or steam
    leaves the river, lake or
    ocean and goes into
    the air.
    TRANSPIRATION
    • Transpiration is the
    process by which
    plants lose water out
    of their leaves.
    • Transpiration gives
    evaporation a bit of a
    hand in getting the
    water vapor back up
    into the air
    CONDENSATION
    • Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into
    liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation.
    PRECIPITATION
    • Precipitation occurs when so much water has
    condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The
    clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the
    form of rain, hail, sleet or snow
    COLLECTION

    • When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall


    back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on
    land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the
    earth and become part of the "ground water" that plants
    and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and
    collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts.

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