C onsidering God's Creation
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- cumulus
- puffed up (dense puffs,mounds or towers of clouds with flat bases)
- intrusive
- refers to igneous rock formed when magma cools below the surface of the earth
- alto
- higher (high clouds)
- crystalline
- mineral body (like quartz) with regular geometric shapes
- nimbus
- dark rain (dense rain or snow cloud)
- crust
- hard, outer covering of the earth - 19-22 miles think
- stratus
- layer (straight layers of low altitude fog-like clouds)
- earthquake
- movement in the earth's crust
- cirrus
- wispy(delicate fleecy feathery clouds made up of ice crystals)
- ozone layer
- a protective layer of condensed oxygen, (which has a peculiar smell) in the stratosphere
- axis
- an imaginary line passing through the center of the earth from the North pole to the South pole
- core
- the center of the earth, consisting of molten ore
- temperature
- how hot or cold it is
- sedimentary rock
- rock made up of layers of materials settled underwater
- climate
- the overall weather pattern of an area
- weather
- the conditon of the atmosphere at any given time or place
- vacuum
- vacant or empty space
- gravity
- the force that attracts one object to another
- biosphere
- layer of earth that supports life, including land, sea, and air
- terrestrial
- earth-like
- gaseous
- composed of substances that are neither solid nor liquid
- galaxy
- a group or system of stars and other heavenly bodies
- solar system
- the group of planets, their satellites(moons),comets,meteors,asteroids, and so forth that revolve around the sun
- precipation
- amount of rain or snow
- hemisphere
- half of the earth
- year
- the length of time it takes a planet to orbit around the sun
- exosphere
- the outer layer of atmosphere
- orbit
- the path of a heavenly body as it rotates around another body
- creation
- All that which is created
- volcano
- an opening in the earth through which gases, ash, and lava are ejected
- mesophere
- the middle layer of air
- Universe
- All created things
- erosion
- to wear away or break down into small pieces
- rotation
- to turn in a circular motion on an axis
- day
- the length of time it takes a planet to rotate on its axis
- continent
- large mass of land
- metamorphic rock
- rock which has been changed by heat or pressure
- constellation
- a fixed group of stars
- stratosphere
- the second layer of air above the earth's surface
- humidity
- how much moisture there is in the air
- fossil
- any evidence of life from the past
- consider
- To ponder, contemplate with awe, think about deeply
- sphere
- globe
- ionosphere
- an upper layer of air with electrically charged atoms
- planet
- a heavenly body that revolves around the sun
- magma
- hot, molten(melted)rock
- equator
- an imanginary line dividing the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres
- extrusive
- refers to igneous rock formed when magma cools below the surface of the earth
- mantle
- the middle layer of the earth
- igneous rock
- rock formed as a result of intense heat
- troposphere
- the layer of air closest to the earth's surface
- molecules
- the smallest piece of any substance that can be identified as that substance
- atmosphere
- the blanket of air surrounding a heavenly body
- AU
- the distance from the sun to earth (approximately 93,000,000 miles)