Map Skills/Geography Vocabulary

one of the large landmasses of the earth

• hemisphere

• continent

• degree

half of the earth

• degree

• Mars

• hemisphere

a specific position

• degree

• point guard

• equator

distance north or south of the equator

• scale

• grid

• latitude

distance east or west of the prime meridian

• artic

• longitude

• equator

an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth

• equator

• invisible

• grid

study of the earth's surface

• astronomy

• geography

• scale

the ratio between the size of a thing and its representation

• scale

• continent

• degree

A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles

• grid

• phone lines

• equator

0 degree longitude

• hemisphere

• Africa

• Prime Meridian