Cody Phillips							Earth Science
Block 4								Vocab

1. Celestial - Relating to the sky; found in the sky.
2. Terrestrial - Relating to the earth and its inhabitants.
3. Constellations - The arrangement of stars to form a certain design or
pattern. 
4. Geocentric - Theory that the universe revolves around the earth.
5. Heliocentric - Theory that a solar system revolves around the sun.
6. Galaxy - A large-scale arrangement of stars, dust, and other masses
that constitute the universe.
7. Rotation - The spinning of a planet or mass in space on an axis.
8. Revolution - The orbital movement of one object around another caused
by a gravitational force.
9. Orbit - The path of a celestial object around another.
10. Apparent Motion - The illusion in which stationary objects viewed in
quick succession appear to be moving.
11. Equinox - Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic
intersects the celestial equator.
12. Solstice - Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest
distance from the celestial equator.
13. Vernal - Relating to Spring.
14. Autumnal - Relating to Autumn.
15. Zenith - The point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the 
observer.
16. Azimuth - the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of 
the meridian.
17. Horizon - The line at which the sky and the earth appear to meet.
18. Tides - The movement of water caused by the gravitational force from the
moon.
19. Ellipse -  The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each 
point to two fixed points is equal.
20. Focus (Foci) - A point at which rays of light or other radiation converge or 
from which they appear to diverge.
21. Eccentricity - A non-circular quality in a celestrial object's orbit.
22. Inertia - The tendancy of a body to resist acceleration.
23. Satellite - A celestrial body that orbits a planet; a moon.
24. Asteroid - Any of the small celestial bodies that are in space.
25. Meteor - A streak of light in the sky when a meteorite hits the earth's 
atmosphere.
26. Comet - A relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass 
that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.
27. Red Shift - A change in radiation in wavelegnths in astronomical objects.
28. Big Bang - Theory that the universe started as compressed matter which
finally dispersed through space.
29. Light-Year - The distance something traveling the speed of light 
would cover in a year.
30. Eclipse - One celestial object being blocked out by the shadow of another.
31. Perigee - The point nearest the earth's center in the orbit of the moon or a 
satellite.
32. Nebula - A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as 
luminous patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the mass 
absorbs or reflects incident radiation.
33. Black Hole - An area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that 
its escape velocity is equal to or exceeds the speed of light.
34. Foucault Pendelum - A simple pendulum suspended from a long wire and
set into motion along a meridian. The plane of motion appears to turn 
clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern 
Hemisphere, demonstrating the axial rotation of the earth.
35. Arc - A continuous portion of a circle.
36. Perihelion - The area nearest to the sun in the orbit of a planet or 
celestial body.
37. Aphelion - The area farthest from the sun in the orbit of a planet or 
celestial body.
38. Orbital Velocity - The speed at which a celestial object travels in its orbit.
39. Astronomical Unit - A unit based on legnths between two objects in space.
40. Sidereal Month - The amount of time it takes for the moon to orbit around
the earth.
41. Umbra - A dark area, especially the blackest part of a shadow from which 
all light is cut off.
42. Penumbra - A partial shadow, as in an eclipse, between regions of 
complete shadow and complete illumination.
43. Milky Way Galaxy - The galaxy containing our Solar System.
44. Clusters - A group of objects that are gathered or occuring closely.
45. Doppler Shift - Change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer 
and source move toward or away from each other. 

It was cool to actually get to know most of the people there in some way or another, and fall in, in a sense. Despite the fact that I won't be back in months, probably.

First off, I am all for the catchy christian songs sung at these things. However, when they are replayed for an hour and a half, and your attention span is roughly 15 minutes, you quickly loose interest. In the end it's not so much the music going through your mind, but things like:
"That line is on there 4 times, that one 3. But the 4 one only has 3 words, and the 3 has 4. When added, they have the same amount of words. ...but 3 has more letters. Unless spaces count. Do they? Okay, if they do, then 4 has more. Ooh, next page! Okay..."

But the speakers were great, as they always are at conferences. And there'll always be the infamous sex lady. 3 days of church on the topic of sex can be very interesting. Things are said you think you'd never hear at church. You wouldn't believe how many references there were to the song "Let's do it like they do on the discovery channel" there were. :)

The whole idea of speaking in tongues, the healing thing, or that passing out thing, entirely new to me. I've never seen that before, and you can bet I was kinda freaked out when those first few people passed out on stage. I was thinking something along the lines of "Well isn't someone gonna help her?!". Our church doesn't really...do any of that. Nothing hands on like that.

Wow, the sunset right now looks almost apocalyptic. I must take a picture. Niice. I gotta post that picture. Anywho...

I was rooming with Zack, Tom, B.K., and Mike. No one really wanted to sleep with B.K, so we ended up taking appart the mattresses and sleeping on the box springs. We passed our time playing card games, which lasted until Zack and Mike would disagree and argue, in which case one of them would throw down their cards. Meanwhile, Tom's playing Tony Hawk on the X-Box and 1 controller that he brought. Then onto the next game.

On the first night, we were starving, or at least I was, having eaten only breakfast, and it was going on 11:00. So thank God for Denny's. Right by our Hotel. Me and Tom at first, but we met with Matt. I knew him only by one time I'd been to the youth group and talked to him. So he became our Denny's groupie. The waitress there was really cool, she talked to us the whole time. It was a lotta fun. 

On the way back, we left with much of the group. I was walking by Jay on the way back, and he was going on about the fire of God or something. He was talking to me. "Do you have the fire of God Almighty burning inside of you?" Yes. "Really? Cuz once that fire starts going, there's NOO Stopping you." He got more indepth, and as he went on, I thought he was joking.  He was telling it like a joke. We're heading upstairs, I can see our room through the door. Their pace slows, and eventually stops. Tom and Zack walk on, and close the room door behind them. It's just me, Jay, Matt and B.K. I still had a chance to leave, but I didn't know I'd'a wanted to. So I read the verse he mentioned about speaking in tongue. He musta heard me talking about how strange it sounded. He asks if I'd ever spoken in tongue before. No. They go on to explain it. Makes sense. Jay and B.K. were talking, Matt was just standing there sympathedically. As it grew more intense, he gave me a look that meant "You're on your own." Ha haaaw man. Now comes the prayer, after one final series of questions. Now I was nervous. They were trying to persuade me, but I don't know where. Then the prayer. They all place a hand on me, and start praying. Their objective is to get me to say something in tongue. Time passes, they don't relent. I soon realize this isn't going to happen on it's own. Just say something. Anything. The prayer grows more intense. What do I do? Louder. From what they told me, it should just be something natural. Well nothing's coming. Should I fake it? No. Give it a try. Close my eyes, concentrate. Minutes pass. Nothing happens. They're not gonna stop 'til I do...something. What do I do? Think. No, don't think. You don't think about this stuff. I wonder what they're doing in the room. Concentrate. Deep breath. "Here it comes! I can feel it! He's going to do it!" Now I'm reeally put on the spot. I have seconds to come up with...something. Breath out. Snap out of it, it's not gonna happen. "Aah, I've got nothing. Sorry." I really thought he was gonna keep me there for hours. There's no reading him. After pounding about 6 cappuchinos, he's wired. He's good to go. Then B.K. comes in. "Well it's late, we'll keep working at it." Frustrated, I walk into the room. Both that this had happened, and that I had failed. Judging by their expectations, it couldn't be that hard. This stayed on my mind for the rest of the night.

Then sleep. Phone ringing. "Bible study? It's 4:30. Get some sleep, Jay." More sleep. And just like that, the night is taken away from me. I can sense when someone's gonna wake me up stupidly. Usually. So I was able to eliminate Zack before he was a problem. 7:00. Back to sleep. BK's up now. I almost made it back out before I'm nearly ripped out of bed. I'm up, I'm up! The morning was a blur. Bible Study, that didn't last long. McDonalds, stay awake, soon enough it's time to go.

The day goes by fast.