Sentence examples for hydrosphere from inspiring English sources
The word 'hydrosphere' is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to all the water in or on the Earth's surface, including oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and glaciers. Example: The hydrosphere plays a crucial role in the Earth's ecosystem and is essential for supporting life.
noun
All the waters of the Earth, as distinguished from the land and the gases of the atmosphere.
Certain aspects of the changes in rivers through time are described in climate: Effects of precipitation, and the general interrelationship of river systems to other components of the Earth's hydrosphere is treated in hydrosphere: River and ocean waters.
The Earth's crust is generally richer in oxygen-18 (18O) than is the mantle, as a result of the reaction of these upper-layer rocks with the hydrosphere and atmosphere.
The scope of geophysics touches on virtually all aspects of geology, ranging from considerations of the conditions in the Earth's deep interior, where temperatures of several thousands of degrees Celsius and pressures of millions of atmospheres prevail, to the Earth's exterior, including its atmosphere and hydrosphere.
It is also concerned with the contribution of volcanoes to the development of the Earth's crust, with their role as contributors to the atmosphere and hydrosphere and to the balance of chemical elements in the Earth's crust, and with the relationships of volcanoes to certain forms of metallic ore deposits.
One of the principal reasons for studying volcanoes and volcanic products is that the atmosphere and hydrosphere are believed to be largely derived from volcanic emanations, modified by biological processes.
Remote-sensing methods seek thermodynamic disequilibrium, especially in the fluid phases (atmosphere and hydrosphere) of the planet.
It is likely that the hydrosphere attained its present volume early in the Earth's history, and since that time there have been only small losses and gains.
Whatever the case, evidence of change is present in the rock record albeit the composition of the modern hydrosphere has not varied greatly for the past one billion years.
Moreover, as will be seen in the following section, humankind is modifying not only the chemistry of local and regional water bodies but also that of the entire global atmosphere-hydrosphere by increasing the rates of input of natural substances and by introducing new synthetic substances to the environment.
The probable impact of a bolide (either an asteroid or comet) and increased volcanism at the end of the Cretaceous (about 65.5 million years ago), though still the subject of hot debate, certainly could have caused short-term changes in the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere-hydrosphere.
It has double the area and more than double the water volume of the Atlantic Ocean the next largest division of the hydrosphere and its area more than exceeds that of the whole land surface of the globe.
