Geography Vocabulary Review

A large body of water.

• Continent

• Ocean

• Legend

List of symbols appearing on a chart or map.

• Regions

• Legend (or map key)

• Continent

Horizontal lines on a map used to mark absolute location.

• Longitude

• Grid system

• Latitude

A branch of science that deals with the study of the Earth.

• Biology

• Geometry

• Geography

Shows the shapes of the continents and locations of the oceans.

• Scale

• World map

• Longitude

A large body of land.

• Continent

• Sphere

• Ocean

Something which stands for or suggest something else.

• Geography

• Symbol

• Grid system

An imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

• Prime Meridian

• Geography

• Compass rose

An indication of the relationship between the distances on a map.

• Scale

• Regions

• Legend

Network of horizontal and vertical lines used to locate points on a map.

• Grid system

• Scale

• Latitude