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HYDROSPHERE (Gr. i55wp,
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water, and O4aipa,
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sphere)  , in
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physical
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geography, a name given to the whole
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mass of the
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water of the oceans, which fills the depressions in the
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earth's crust, and covers nearly three-quarters of its
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surface . The name is used in distinction from the
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atmosphere, the earth's envelope of
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air, the
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lithosphere (Gr . XLOos,
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rock) or solid crust of the earth, and the centrosphere or interior mass within the crust . To these "
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spheres " some writers add, by figurative usage, the terms "biosphere,'," or
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life-
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sphere, to
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cover all living things, both animals and
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plants, and " psychosphere," or mind-sphere, covering all the products of human intelligence .

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