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- Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]],...
10: ...type of volcano has a tendency to explode because it easily plugs. [[Mount Pel饝] on the island of [[...
12: ...", respectively. The latter were thought to be a little misleading, however, and are slowly falling in...
15: ...on [[Earth]], [[Mauna Loa]], is 9,000 m high (it sits on the sea floor), 120 km in diameter and forms ...
20: ...tica, and [[Mount Rainier]] in the northwestern United States are tall conical mountains composed of b... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ... became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There a...
15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat of g...
17: largest_city = [[Amsterdam]] |
18: government_type= [[Democracy|Dem.]] [[Constitution|const.]] [[monarchy]] |
19: leader_titles = [[Dutch monarch|Queen]]<br>[[Prime minister ... - Desert (21206 bytes)
4: ...e, deserts have a reputation for supporting very little life. Compared to wetter regions this may be t...
8: Deserts sometimes contain valuable mineral deposits that were formed in the arid environment or that...
14: ...fall, and semiarid lands have a mean annual precipitation of between 250 and 500 millimeters. Arid and...
16: ... also receives less than 250 millimeters of precipitation per year, but is not generally recognized as...
18: ... desert: a place where evaporation exceeds precipitation. - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...eneric term for [[star]]s and the objects that orbit around them.
8: ...]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such:
13: **[[Jupiter|Jupiter]] (♃)
20: ...the Solar System, accompanied by their main satellites, profiled against the limb of the Sun]]
22: ...ects that orbit these planets are [[Natural satellite|moon]]s. For a complete listing, see that articl... - Flower (10503 bytes)
3: ...fter fertilization, a flower develops into a [[fruit]] containing the seed(s).
6: ... structure forms on a modified shoot or ''axis'' with an apical [[meristem]] that does not grow contin...
11: ... female reproductive organs and contain an ovary with ovules (female gametes). The sticky tip of tip o...
16: ...ant, the species is considered '''''[[Plant sexuality|monoecious]]'''''.
18: ...le or self-incompatible. (See also: [[Plant sexuality]]) - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...r trunk (see [[shrub]] for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A ...
13: ...ope]]s are defined largely by the trees that inhabit them; examples are [[rainforest]] and [[taiga]] (...
18: ...tyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palms]]), grow by addition of new material inwards.
20: ...f [[dendrochronology]]. In some tropical regions with constant year-round climate, growth is continuou...
22: ...the leaf-bearing branches, aiding in competition with other plant species for [[sunlight]]. In many tr... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
3: ...toward Saturn. It passed close to Saturn and then it followed an escape trajectory from the [[solar sy...
5: ...acecraft's [[velocity]]. The thrusters could be either fired steadily or pulsed, by command.
7: ...]]s, sealed pressurized cells of [[argon]] and [[nitrogen]] gas for measuring penetration of meteoroid...
9: ...s closest encounter. The [[moon]] [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] is visible to the upper left.]]
11: ...] and was heading outward at 2.5 [[Astronomical Unit|AU]] /year. - Cirrus cloud (3505 bytes)
3: [[Image:Sky-filled-with-cirrus-clouds.jpg|thumb|250px|Cirrus clouds]]
9: ... feet. If there are many cirrus clouds in the sky it may be a sign that a [[Weather front|frontal syst...
11: ...nd possibly Neptune. They have even been seen on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. Some of these extraterr...
15: ...ually occur in fair weather. They are formed when it is high enough to be cold and freeze the water dr...
20: ... amounts of cirrus from their anvils.[18] High-altitude winds commonly push this dense mat out into an... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
4: ...0px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
6: ! bgcolor="#c0ffff" colspan="2" | [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] ...
9: ...[[kilometre|km]]<br>9.537 070 32 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
11: ! align="left" | Orbital [[circumference]]
14: ! align="left" | [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]] - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
5: <br/><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
15: !bgcolor="#a0ffa0" colspan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] ...
18: ...[kilometre|km]]<br>39.481 686 77 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
20: !align="left"| Orbital [[circumference]]
23: !align="left"| [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]] - Ocean (6829 bytes)
6: ... in being defined only by a line of [[latitude]] with no landmass boundaries.
10: ... the oceans are called [[sea]]s, [[gulf]]s, [[strait]]s and other names.
12: ...er than a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.)
14: ... million km?, its volume is 1370 million km?, and its average depth is 3790 m. This does not include s...
18: ... ocean water composition, most notably its [[salinity]]. - Sea (3330 bytes)
3: {{wiktionarypar|maritime}}
5: ...way. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in ''the tropical sea'' or ''down to t...
49: * [[Mediterranean Sea]]
103: ...sent under the surface of several [[natural satellite|moon]]s, most notably [[Europa (moon)|Europa]].
105: ... on the surface of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], though it may be more accurate to describe them as "lakes" ... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
8: ...ival after his defeat of the [[titan (mythology)|Titan]] [[Cronus]].
10: ...nour of the gods. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the war during these games...
12: ...ho switched the lynchpins from Oenomaus' chariot with pins made of beeswax: predictably the lynchpins ...
14: ...the games were held to be one of the two central rituals in Ancient Greece, the other being the [[Eleu...
18: ...pia, Greece, a sanctuary site for the [[List of deities|Greek gods]] near the towns of Elis and [[Pisa... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
6: ...entify Zeus/Jupiter with either Tyr or Odin, but with [[Thor]].
8: ...assical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], ...
12: ===Role and Titles===
13: ... beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity.
15: ...sized different aspects of his wide-ranging authority: - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ...ion''. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a ''hermeneus.'' Hermes gives us ou...
6: ...ects from one place to another, and with the transition to the afterlife.
9: ...origin on Mt. Cyllene explains the origin of an epithet for Hermēs: ''Hermēs Cylleneius''. ...
11: ...osphere of the Roman Empire, Hermes was combined with the [[Egyptian mythology|Egyptian]] [[Anubis]] t...
13: ...rcury was commonly identified by Roman observers with the Germanic god Wotan/Woden/[[Odin]], hence Lat... - Argon (6952 bytes)
14: {{Elementbox_heatcapacity_jpmolkat25 | 20.786 }}
43: ...hemical element is colorless and odorless in both its liquid and gaseous forms.
44: ...ne]], was reported by researchers at the [[University of Helsinki]] in 2000, but has not been confirme...
46: ...s]] with [[water (molecule)|water]] when atoms of it are trapped in a lattice of the water molecules. ...
49: ...and other cases where diatomic nitrogen is an unsuitable (semi-)[[inert]] gas. Other uses; - Nitrogen (10073 bytes)
1: {{Elementbox_header | number=7 | symbol=N | name=nitrogen | left=[[carbon]] | right=[[oxygen]] | above...
14: {{Elementbox_heatcapacity_jpmolkat25 | (N<sub>2</sub>)<br />29.124 }}
30: {{Elementbox_isotopes_begin | isotopesof=nitrogen | color1=#a0ffa0 | color2=green }}
31: {{Elementbox_isotopes_stable | mn=14 | sym=[[nitrogen-14|N]] | na=99.634% | n=7 }}
32: {{Elementbox_isotopes_stable | mn=15 | sym=[[nitrogen-15|N]] | na=0.366% | n=8 }} - Titanium (20884 bytes)
1: <!-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. --><table border="0" cellpadding="2" ce...
4: ...lspan="2" align="center">[[scandium]] – '''titanium''' – [[vanadium]]</td>
13: ...], [[List of elements by number|Number]]</td><td>Titanium, Ti, 22</td></tr>
15: <td>[[Chemical series]]</td><td>[[transition metal]]s</td></tr>
19: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]</td><td>4507... - Creation (theology) (32465 bytes)
1: [[Image:creationism.jpg|thumb|right|[[Christianity]], [[Islam]] and [[Judaism]] hold the belief tha...
3: ...]] or [[deity]]. The event itself may be seen as either ''[[ex nihilo]]'' or order from preexisting ch...
5: ...hold such beliefs consider them to be compatible with [[science]]. They may say, for example, that a c...
7: ...heological understanding evolved in between the writing of the various books that came to be collected...
9: ...urce for information on [[natural history]], and literal interpretations of scriptures are not conside... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...olitical]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]], [[religious]] and [[economic]]...
9: ...d with a set of 27 maps, though scholars say that it is not known whether the printed maps were engrav...
11: ...544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Italian, Assembled to Order) or more frequently "Laf...
13: ...le maps to a uniform size. It was an immediate critical and commercial success.
15: ...Mercator’s]] "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi ..." (Atlas, or Descripti...
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