Hydrosphere and Atmosphere

Water that falls from the sky

• Precipitation

• Surface Run-Off

• Condensation

• Evaporation

Water not absorbed by the ground

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Surface-Runoff

Water trapped underground between layers of rock

• Evaporation

• Groundwater

• Condensation

• Precipitation

When water transforms from a liquid to a solid

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Surface Runoff

water evaporates from plants

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

when water transforms from a vapor to a liquid

• condensation

• precipitation

• groundwater

• transpiration

This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which absorbs the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Mesosphere

• Thermosphere

Earth is protected from many meteoroids by this layer—they burn up in it!

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Mesosphere

• Thermosphere

All of Earth’s weather occurs here.

• Thermosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

This is the thickest layer of the atmosphere.

• Thermosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere