Answer: receives the thermal energy
Explanation:
The cryosphere can be defined as the land which is covered with the surface of ice in the solid form in the form of sea ice, river ice, snow, ice glaciers, ice sheets, frozen water, and others. When the ice on the land receives the thermal energy from the sun or any other source like radiation then it melts into water and it becomes the part of the water body in the form of the hydrosphere.
