Social Studies

The exact location of something.

Example: Tewksbury is 42 N, 71 W.

• Geography

• Landscape

• Absolute Location

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Imaginary line that circles the middle of Earth. This line is equally distant from the North Pole and the South Pole.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Geography

• Absolute Location

Portions of Earth’s surface that can be viewed at one time from another location.

• Lines of Latitude

• Landscape

• Scale

• Lines of Longitude

(a)   is the height or depth of a place compared to sea level.

The study of Earth and its peoples, places, and environments.

• Map projection

• Absolute Location

• Place

• Geography

Describes where a place is compared to another place. Example: Tewksbury is 20 miles north of Boston.

• Place

• Relative location

• Geography

• Remote sensing

The relationship between distances and how they are shown on a map.

• Thematic map (Theme)

• Elevation

• Scale

• Absolute Location

Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England.

• Prime Meridian

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• Elevation

• Relative location

Imaginary lines that runs east to west, but they measure distances on Earth in a north-to-south direction from the midpoint around the earth.

• Geography

• Landscape

• Lines of Latitude

• Prime Meridian

The way geographers convert round Earth to a flat map, distorting aspects of Earth in order to represent other aspects as accurately as possible.

• Math

• Scale

• Map projection

• Lines of Latitude