The study of weather

is called Meteorology
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The study of thunder -
Brontology
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The study of lightning
- Fulminology
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Geomorphology – the
study of earth surface
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Pedology – the study
of soil
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Paleotempestology –
the study of tropical
cyclones HY
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 Potamology
The study of river
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Petrology is the study
of rock
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Palaeontology is the
study of fossils
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Climatology is the
study of climate
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Studying earthquakes -
Seismology
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Ecology – the study of
environment
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Orology – the study of
mountains
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The study of stars and
planets is called
Astronomy HY
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Cosmology is the
study of universe
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Anemology is the
study of winds
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 Ombrology – it is a
branch of meteorology
that deals with rain HY
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Volcanology – the
study of volcanoes
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Glaciology – the study
of glaciers
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Cartography – the art
of making maps
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Nephology – the study
of clouds
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Limnology – the study
of inland waters
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 Stratigraphy – the
study of rock layers
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 Agronomy – the
scientific study of
agriculture OG RA
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Geology – the study
of the interior of the
earth
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Cyclogenesis – the
process of cyclone
formation and
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 The mass of the Sun is
330000 times as great as
that of the earth and its
diameter is 1382400 HY

kilometres
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 Origin of the Earth –
Nebular Hypothesis of Kant
and Laplace.
The solar system was a
highly heated gaseous
mass(nebula) slowly rotating
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 Origin of the Earth – The
Planetesimal Hypothesis.
The earth has been a cold mass of
spiral nebula, thought to have
been formed by the gathering in
of masses nebulous matter OG RA
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Vatican City is the least
populous country in the
world
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The Nile River is the
longest whereas the
Amazon is the largest
river in the world
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The tallest dam in the world
is Nurek Dam on the
Vakhsh River in Tajikistan PHY
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Syncrude Tailings Dam in Canada
is currently ranked number one
by volume of construction
material at 706,320,000 cubic
yards (540,000,000 cubic HY
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The Pacific Ocean is the
largest and deepest of
the world ocean basins PHY
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 Angel Falls in Venezuela, the
tallest waterfall on land, is 3 times
shorter than the Denmark Strait
cataract, and Niagara Falls
carries 2,000 times less water, HY
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 Asia is by far the largest
continent in the world,
spanning 17.2 million
square miles (44.6 million
square kilometers) GE
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Russia is the country to have most
consecutive number of time zones.
Russian time zones are UTC-2,
UTC-3, UTC-4, UTC-5, UTC-6,
UTC-7, UTC-8, UTC-9, UTC-10, HY
UTC-11 and UTC-12. GE
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Jupiter is the biggest
planet in our solar
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Mercury is the smallest
planet in our solar
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The most distant planet in the Solar
System is Neptune, which orbits the
Sun at an average distance of 4.498
billion km (2.794 billion miles). HY
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The nearest planet to the
Sun is Mercury
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Venus is the hottest
planet in our solar
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 Uranus holds the record
for the coldest temperature
ever measured in the Solar
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 Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the
planet with the most moons, according to
US researchers. A team discovered a
haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed
planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by
contrast, has 79 natural satellites GRAPHY
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Sahara, the largest hot
desert, expanded by 10
per cent in the 20th
century GE
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Lake Baikal is the world's
largest freshwater lake in
terms of volume. PHY
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The Caspian Sea
is the largest salt
water lake in the
world GE
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Rising gradually to more than
4 km (2.5 mi) above sea
level, Hawaii's Mauna Loa is
the largest active volcano on
our planet GE
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 The Trans-Siberian
Railway is the longest
railway in the world RA
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The World’s largest
Island is Greenland
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