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given time. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the
stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and
precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric
conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification,
"weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.
Ex:
-Rainy Weather
-Snowy Weather
-Windy Weather
-Haily Weather
-Thunder Stormy Weather
-Sunny Weather
-Cloudy Weather
Weaher….
The Universe comprises everything we perceive to physically exist, the entirety
of space and time, all forms of matter and energy. However, the term
Universe may be used in slightly different contextual senses, denoting such
concepts as the cosmos, the world, or Nature.
According to the prevailing scientific model of the Universe, known as the Big
Bang, the Universe expanded from an extremely hot, dense phase called the
Planck epoch, in which all the matter and energy of the observable universe
was concentrated. Since the Planck epoch, the Universe has been expanding to
its present form, possibly with a brief period (less than 10−32 seconds) of
cosmic inflation. Several independent experimental measurements support this
theoretical expansion and, more generally, the Big Bang theory. Recent
observations indicate that this expansion is accelerating because of the dark
energy
The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it
by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud
approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Of the retinue of objects that orbit the
Sun, most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets
whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly-flat disc called the
ecliptic plane. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and
Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and
metal. The four outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, also
called the gas giants, are composed largely of hydrogen and helium and are far
more massive than the terrestrials.
The Solar System is also home to two regions populated by smaller objects.
The asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, is similar to the
terrestrial planets as it is composed mainly of rock and metal. Beyond
Neptune's orbit lie trans-Neptunian objects composed mostly of ices such as
water, ammonia and methane. Within these two regions, five individual objects,
Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris, are recognized to be large enough
to have been rounded by their own gravity, and are thus termed dwarf planets.
In addition to thousands of small bodies in those two regions, various other
small body populations, such as comets, centaurs and interplanetary dust,
freely travel between regions.
The solar wind, a flow of plasma from the Sun, creates a bubble in the
interstellar medium known as the heliosphere, which extends out to the edge of
the scattered disc. The hypothetical Oort cloud, which acts as the source for
long-period comets, may also exist at a distance roughly a thousand times
further than the heliosphere.
Six of the planets and three of the dwarf planets are orbited by natural
satellites,[b] usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon. Each of the outer
planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles.