Which earth sphere causes the downhill movement of soils and water by glaciers?

a. geosphere
b. hydrosphere
c. cryosphere
d. atmosphere

c. Cryosphere

Explanation:

The cryosphere is the part of the earth where water exists in a solid form of ice. For example sea ice, river ice, lake ice, snow cover, ice sheets, frozen ground and ice caps. This sphere overlaps with the hydrosphere.

During a retreating glacier or conditions of glacier erosion the glacier takes away the soil and water from the surrounding region along with the glacier ice.

On the basis of the above description, cryosphere is the correct option. As the glacier being a part of the cryosphere will cause the downhill movement of the soils and water.

the earth is thought to have been formed about 4.6 billion years ago by collisions from a cloud of hydrogen, helium, rock, ice and other materials. these were pulled together by gravity to form objects in and around earth like- asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals.

so, the best possible answer to this question will be option d- to harden materials to form different parts of earth’s layers