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The Earth is Man's Home

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antediluvian   times, people, or events that were before the Flood  
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cuneiform   a form of writing using wedge-shaped characters  
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deluge   a great flood  
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Fertile Crescent   an arc-shaped area in the Middle East that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and was rich in agriculture in early times  
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fissure   a crack or opening that runs across the surface of the earth  
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fossil   the remains or imprint of plants, animals, and man that are preserced in the rocks of the earth  
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hieroglyghic   a system of writing developed by the ancient Egyptians using pictures and symbols  
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inundate   to submerge or cover with flood waters  
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linguistic   pertaining to different languages  
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petrify   the process that turns soft material into a stony substance  
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radiation   to send forth as rays, as of light or heat  
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silt   fine particles of soil and rock carried by water and deposited in a low place  
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strata   natural or deposited layers of material, one upon the other  
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tundra   treeless plains found in arctic lands  
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