which website shows the atmosphere, and the total water on our planet, pictorially in the form of a sphere?
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www.weather.com\n\nif u have interest in weather u can find more at http://www.weather-forums.com/
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www.noaa.gov\nwww.nasa.gov\ngoogle earth and www.terraserver.microsoft.com
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try http://www.globe7.com
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www.lycos.co.uk. or www.lunarstorm.co.uk.
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http://www.nasa.com\nsee this
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www.nasa.com\n\nYou can catch every detail.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Water_cycle.png
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Google Earth.  Outstanding site and you can also see local landmarks.  In some cases you can zoom in so close that you can see landmarks (Pyramids, great wall of china, Space Needle.)\n\nIt's a fun site to peruse.
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http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/spheres.htm
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google earth\n\nhttp://earth.google.com/
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Kind of depends upon what you mean by 3D maps, but you are probably thinking of services like Google Earth. These are services that allow you to view the globe as a globe. You have several options.\nFirst, and probably best, is Google Earth. A small download allows you to view the world. Also, major metro areas have fully 3D buildings on top of just the map. (get the new V4 beta)\nThen there is the lesser known World Wind, a free open-source program made by NASA (your $$ at work!). Much larger download, but you have more options for overlays, like USGS topo maps. However, it won't have things like street names.\nFinally (and this one probably won't work for the areas you are looking for) Microsoft has a beta online map program that has for a few cities low height arial photography.\nAll the links are in the source list below.
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Hydrosphere - The part of the Earth composed of water including clouds, oceans, seas, ice caps, glaciers, lakes, rivers, underground water supplies, and atmospheric water vapor.\n\nLithosphere - That part of the earth which is composed predominantly of rocks (either coherent or incoherent, and including the disintegrated rock materials known as soils and subsoils), together with everything in this rocky crust. Littoral Zone - The area on, or near the shore of a body water.\n\nAtmosphere - The mixture of gases surrounding the Earth. The Earth's atmosphere consists of about 79.1% nitrogen (by volume), 20.9% oxygen, 0.036% carbon dioxide and trace amounts of other gases. The atmosphere can be divided into a number of layers according to its mixing or chemical characteristics, generally determined by its thermal properties (temperature).
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Here is it\n\nhttp://earth.google.com/downloads.html
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The earth's spheres 101:\n\nAtmosphere\nComposition: 78% Nitrogen; 21% Oxygen; the rest (1%) is Argon, Carbon Dioxide, and other gases.\nStructure: Has 4 layers divided by temperature changes...\ntroposphere-the layer we live in; most oxygen b/c of gravity; weather occurs here; temp decreases as you go up; atmospheric pressure decreases also\nstratosphere-contains atmospheric ozone layer; jets fly in this layer; temp increases due to ozone layer; pressure continues to decrease\nmesosphere-temp decreases again; meteorites burn up as enters our atmosphere here; temp decreases b/c moving away from ozone layer; pressure decreases\nthermosphere-literally means "heat sphere"; is the hottest of all the layers despite the fact it has the least amount of air b/c cosmic radiation is constantly bombarding air particles; satellites put into orbit here\n\nLithosphere:\nComposition of crust-made mostly of silicon, oxygen, & aluminum\nstructure-crust is divided into lithospheric plates that move due to convection of molten rock in the asthenosphere; there are over a dozen major plates; movement of plates cause earthquakes to occur as well as volcanic activity\n\nHydrosphere\nIncludes all the water in the earth's rivers, lakes, streams, air, oceans, groundwater, & living tissues; 98% of water is stored in the oceans; most of earth's freshwater is locked up in glaciers; groundwater is the most abundant source of usable freshwater\nmovement of water (water cycle)-water moves in a constant cycle called the water cycle; most of the water that constitutes precipitation comes from the oceans; water is evaporated from oceans, lakes, etc. then rises w/ warm air masses, cools, condenses, becomes clouds, precipitates, then either becomes groundwater, runoff, etc. then makes its way back into the oceans.
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http://www.education.noaa.gov/\nOn this website, you can access many educational activities, publications and booklets on the following topics: Satellites and space, oceans and coasts, climate change and our planet, and weather.
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Nasa's site definatelly. you can have full studies in Astronomy:) and... I consider the APOD....(Astronomy Picture Of the Day)\nOne picture for everyday since 1995......with full explanation and many links....
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http://ga.logoplanet.com/