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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Hydrosphere
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Gr. i18wp, water, and vgaipa, sphere), in physical geography, a name given to the whole mass of the water of the oceans, which fills the depressions in the earth's crust, and covers nearly three-quarters of its surface. The name is used in distinction from the atmosphere, the earth's envelope of air, the lithosphere (Gr. %Loos, rock) or solid crust of the earth, and the centrosphere or interior mass within the crust. To these "spheres" some writers add, by figurative usage, the terms "biosphere," or life-sphere, to cover all living things, both animals and plants, and "psychosphere," or mind-sphere, covering all the products of human intelligence.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hydrosphere'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/hydrosphere.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hydrosphere'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/hydrosphere.html. 1910.
