Geography Skills Vocabulary

a model of the Earth

• globe

• equator

• legend

• scale

imaginary line that extends around the center of Earth

• longitude

• equator

• latitude

• prime meridian

marked as 0 degrees latitude

• globe

• equator

• legend

• scale

lines that run from east to west

• longitude

• equator

• latitude

• prime meridian

lines that measure distances both north and south of the equator

• longitude

• equator

• latitude

• prime meridian

lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole

• absolute location

• equator

• latitude

• longitude

lines that measure distances east and west of the prime meridian

• prime lines

• equator

• latitude

• longitude

Longitude and latitude are used to tell a place’s ________________.

• absolute location

• relative location

• absolute area

• relative place

half of the sphere

• globe

• equator

• hemisphere

• prime meridian

describes where a place is in relation to another place

• absolute location

• prime meridian

• coordinates

• relative location