Considering God's Creation
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- To ponder, contemplate with awe, think about deeply
- Consider
- All that which is created
- Creation
- A fixed group of stars
- Constellation
- Large mass of land
- Continent
- A group or system of stars and other heavenly bodies
- Galaxy
- A heavenly body that revolves around the sun
- Planet
- The group of planets, their satellites (moons), comets, meteors, asteroids, and so forth, that revolves around the sun
- Solar System
- Any celestial body that gives off light
- Star
- All created things
- Universe
- The force that attracts one object to another
- Gravity
- The path of a heavenly body as it rotates around another body
- Orbit
- The distance from the sun to Earth (about 93,000,000 miles)
- AU (astronomical unit)
- An imaginary line passing through the center of the earth from the North pole to the South pole
- Axis
- The length of time it takes a planet to rotate on its axis
- Day
- Compose of substances that are neither solid nor liquid
- Gaseous
- To turn in a circular motion on an axis
- Rotation
- Earth-like
- Terrestrial
- The length of time it takes a planed to orbit around the sun
- Year
- Layer of earth that supports life, including land, sea, and air
- Biosphere
- The center of the earth, consisting of molten ore
- Core
- Hard, outer covering of the earth's crust-4 to 22 miles thick
- Crust
- Movement in the earth's crust
- Earthquake
- The middle layer of the earth
- Mantle
- An opening in the earth through which gases, ash, and lava are ejected
- Volcano
- The blanket of air surrounding a heavenly body
- Atmosphere
- The outer-most layer of atmosphere
- Exosphere
- The middle layer of air
- Mesophere
- A protective layer of condensed oxygen, O3 (which has a peculiar smell) in the stratosphere
- Ozone layer
- Globe
- Sphere
- The second layer of air above the earth's surface
- Stratosphere
- The very cold upper layer of air which contains many electrically charged atoms
- Thermosphere
- The layer of air closest to the earth's surface
- Troposphere
- Mineral body (like quartz) with regular geometric shapes
- Crystalline
- Refers to igneous rock formed when magma cools above the surface of the earth
- Extrusive
- Rock formed as a result of intense heat
- Igneous Rock
- Hot, molten (melted) rock
- Magma
- To wear away or break down into small pieces
- Erosion
- Any evidence of life from the past
- Fossil
- Rock which has been changed by heat and pressure
- Metamorphic Rock
- Rock made up of layers of materials settled underwater
- Sedimentary Rock
- The overall weather pattern of an area
- Climate
- An imaginary line dividing the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres
- Equator
- Half of the earth
- Hemisphere
- How much moisture there is in the air
- Humidity
- Amount of rain or snow
- Precipitation
- How hot or cold it is
- Temperature
- The condition of the atmosphere at any given time or place
- Weather
- The smallest piece of any substance that can be identified as that substance
- Molecules
- Vacant or empty space
- Vacuum
- Higher
- Alto
- wispy (delicate, fleecy, feathery clouds made up of ice crystals, mares tails, high altitude
- Cirrus or Cirro
- puffed up (dense puff, mounds or towers of clouds with flat bases)
- Cumulus or Cumulo
- dark rain (dense rain or snow cloud)
- Nimbus or Nimbo
- layer (straight layers of low altitude fog-like clouds
- Stratus or Strato
- energy that travels in waves, mostly from the sun, and travels very fast (186,200 miles per second)
- Light
- present in all places at the same time
- omnipresent
- the green color in plants which traps sunlight and makes photosynthesis possible
- chlorophyll
- sticking together
- cohesion
- the process by which a plant creates carbohydrates
- photosynthesis
- to make fruitful or able to reproduce
- fertilize
- the part of the plant that produces seeds
- flower
- the colored flower-leaf
- petal
- the seed-bearing organ of a flower
- pistil
- the fertilizing dust in a flower
- pollen
- the part of the plant that seeks nourishment for the plant; generally grows underground
- root