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Hydrosphere - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Condensation: It happens when water vapor in the atmosphere liquefies and forms clouds. If the air’s temperature is below the freezing point, ice crystals will form around dust particles.
        
        Precipitation: It is the fall of liquid or solid water, which is rain and hail or snow respectively.
        
        Runoff: Most of the water will drain to form streams and feed lakes and rivers.
        
        Infiltration: It refers to the part of the rainwater that seeps into the soil and recharges groundwater streams, another part flows into the rivers, and eventually lakes and oceans where the cycle starts all over again.
- - - - Distribution: Once the water is potable, pipes are used to send water from treatment plants and storage tanks to homes and industries.
        
        Consumption: This is the moment the water is used for any activity at homes, offices and industries, ranging from the simple act of opening the faucets for bathing or brushing teeth, to the industrial uses.
        
        Sewer: Wastewater is collected via the sewer system, by which it is conducted to wastewater treatment plants or water bodies.
        
        Treatment: This step involves removing impurities from the wastewater using a variety of methods, in such a way it is suitable for discharge back into nature.
        
        Discharge: Once the water has been purified, it is returned to nature, pouring it into a lake, river, soil or ocean and trying to affect the environment as little as possible. This allows the natural Water Cycle to be restarted.
- - - - Indian Ocean: Bounds with Asia to the north, Antarctica to the south, several archipelagos located to the east between Asia and Oceania and Africa to the west.
        
        Arctic Ocean: covers the northern polar cap being surrounded, for the most part by Europe, Asia and North America. It communicates with the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait.
        
        Antarctic Ocean: also called Southern Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, encircling the Antarctica and it is generally taken to be south of 60°S latitude.
- - - - Coves: bays closed on three sides so there is only a small access from the ocean. For example: the coves in Baja California.
        
        Fjords: long narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, like those in Norway.
- - - - It is a key to economic development of mankind as they provide abundant fish, minerals and a means of transportation.
- - - - Spring tides - Produced when the Sun and the Moon are aligned in opposite or same sides. In this time, the tide reaches its highest point.
        
        Neap tides - This happens during the first quarter moon or third quarter moon, because the Sun's influence weakens by the moon attraction, at this points the tide is at its lowest.
- - - - Groundwater: is the water located beneath the Earth’s surface, partly due to the rain water infiltration by gravity through permeable soil. It forms water reservoirs called aquifers. Groundwater can emerge as spring water or as a geyser. This phenomenon happens when the aquifers are in contact with volcanic zones forming steam and coming out to the surface with a lot of pressure.
        
        Glaciers: are masses of ice and snow slowly gliding by gravity. A glacier can move between 2 and 30 inches per day and drag along solid materials deposited in the lower parts. They can be continental: when occupying large areas in the polar caps such as in the Antarctica and Greenland; or they can form in mountain peaks such as the Alps.