The Geographer's World

The study of the physical features of the earth. Includes the study of regional formations and their relation to humans.

Imaginary lines running horizontally around the globe.

• Latitude Lines

• Longitude Lines

• Borders

• Poles

Imaginary lines running vertically around the globe.

• Latitude Lines

• Longitude Lines

• Borders

• Poles

Latitude and longitude lines form an imaginary grid over the Earth's surface. By combining longitude and latitude measurements, any location on earth can be determined.

• Latitude Line

• Longitude Line

• continental drift

• geographic coordinates

Earth is divided into four of these...

• Circles

• Tropics

• Hemispheres

• states

Divides the globe into the Northern and Southern hemispheres

• International Date Line

• Prime Meridan

• Equator

• The United Nations

Divides the globe into the Western and Eastern hemispheres

• Prime Meridan

• Equator

• The United States

• North Pole

Regions to the east of this line are counted as being one calendar day earlier than the regions to the west.

• North Pole

• Prime Meridan

• Equator

• International Date Line

Northern Frigid Zone of the Earth.

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capircorn

Southern Frigid Zone of the Earth.

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

• Bermuda Triangle

• South Pole