Considering God's Creation: Weather
Terms
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- climate
- the overall weather pattern of an area
- equator
- an imaginary line dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres
- hemisphere
- half of the earth
- humidity
- how much moisture there is in the air
- precipitation
- amount of rain or snow
- temperature
- how hot or cold it is
- weather
- the condition of the atmosphere at any given time or place
- molecules
- the smallest piece of any substance that can be identified as that substance
- vacuum
- vacant or empty space
- alto-
- "higher"
- cirrus or cirro-
- "wispy" (delicate, fleecy, feathery clouds made up of isce crystals, "mare's tales," high altitude)
- cumulus or cumulo-
- "puffed up" (dense puffs, mounds or towers of clouds with flat bases)
- nimbus or nimbo-
- "dark rain" (dense rain or snow cloud)
- stratus or strato-
- "layer" (straight layers of low altitude fog-like clouds)
- light
- energy that travels in waves, mostly from the sun, and travels very fast (186,200 miles per second)
- omnipresent
- present in all places at the same time