Physical Geography Vocabulary

Ways of showing Earth's curved surface on a flat map

• Distort

• Projection

• Globe

• Cartographer

A 3-dimensional, or spherical, representation of Earth.

• Latitude

• Hemisphere

• Globe

• Scale

The change in elevation from one place to another

• Relief

• elevation

• theme

• scale

A 2-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth

• Projection

• Hemisphere

• Globe

• Map

The height of a physical feature above sea level

• Elevation

• Mountain

• Prime Meridian

• Hemisphere

Imaginary lines that run east to west, parallel to the equator

• Longitude

• Prime Meridian

• Latitude

• Hemisphere

Map maker

• Archealogist

• Geographer

• Mapographer

• Cartographer

The center line of latitude

• Hemisphere

• Equater

• Prime Meridian

• Scale

Imaginary lines that run north to south, from the North Pole to the South Pole

• Latitude

• Equator

• Hemisphere

• Longitude

Half of the Earth

• Hemisphere

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Globe