hydrosphere

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The empirically observed anthropogenic warming of the Earth system is already causing rapid and extreme changes to the Earth's climate, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

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  1. noun The waters of the earth's surface as distinguished from those of the lithosphere and the atmosphere.
  2. noun The water vapor in the earth's atmosphere.

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  • As biologist Harold Morowitz states it, admiring the integrated, linked cycles of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere: “In nature, individual organisms do not exist in isolation ... In that sense, life is a property of planets rather than individual organisms.” Life does not merely adapt to the planet; it actively modifies the environment, and does so in such a way as to make the planet more suitable for life. —  AnalogSF,Dec2003
  • Earth Explorer missions form the science and research element of the Living Planet Programme and focus on the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the Earth's interior, with the overall emphasis on learning more about the interactions between these components and the impact that human activity is having on natural Earth processes. —  WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • The empirically observed anthropogenic warming of the Earth system is already causing rapid and extreme changes to the Earth's climate, hydrosphere, and biosphere. —  RealClimate
  • Soil is different from its parent rock source, altered by interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and the biosphere. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • As Samuel L. Jackson's abrupt death sequence in "Deep Blue Sea" showed, the beasts of the hydrosphere can strike at the most unlikely moment. —  JournalStar.com - News Articles
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  1. from Greek υ%36δωρ (ὑδρ-), water, + σφαῖρα, sphere.
 

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