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how the stars would shine, if all the stars were the same distance from our eyes on earth |
AFRICA a continent, south of the mediterranean sea |
ANTARTICA the continent mainly within the artic circle |
ASIA the largest of the continents extending from europe to the pacific |
AUSTRALIA a continent and a country between the pacific and indian oceans |
AXIS a line through the center of an object, around which it rotates when spinning |
CONTINENT a main land mass |
COUNTRY land; region |
DESERT a barren, wasteland of sand |
EARTH the planet on which we live |
EUROPE a continent extending from asia to the atlantic ocean |
FOREST tress and undergrowth covering a large area |
GEOGRAPHY the scientific study of the earth's surface features |
GLOBE an object shaped like a ball with a map of the earth on it |
LAKE a large body of water completely surrounded by land |
LAND the solid part of the earth's surface |
LANDFORM refers to different types of shapes that can be created on the surface of the earth |
MAP a representation of the earth's surface |
MOON a satellite that orbits a planet, due to gravitational attraction |
MOUNTAIN a mass of land that rises to a great height, especially of over a thousand feet |
NORTH AMERICA the northernmost continent of the western hemisphere |
OCEAN the sea surrounding the the continents of the earth |
PLANET a "wanderer" one of the nine bodies in orbit around the sun |
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REFLECT to throw back |
RELATIVE BRIGHTNESS
comparing stars which seems to shine the most |
RELIEF ease given by reduction or removal of pain or anxiety or a burden |
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REVOLUTION the motion of one body around another |
RIVER a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel |
ROCK the hard part of the earth's surface, underlaying the soil |
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SOLAR SYSTEM the sun with the heavenly bodies that revolve around it |
SOUTH AMERICA a continent in the southern western hemisphere |
SPACE the boundless expanse in which all objects exist and move |
SPACE SUIT a sealed pressurized suit allowing the wearer to leave a spacecraft and move about independently in outer space |
SPHERICAL shaped like a sphere |
STAR a self luminous nearly spherical mass of gas |
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UNIVERSE the cosmos, everything that is out there |
VEGETATION plant life; growing plants |
WATER a colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid that is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen |
WEST the point of the horizon where the sun sets |
