Geography Vocabulary

Geography

• half of the Earth

• 0 degrees latitude

• study if the Earth

• the exact location of a place on earth

Equator

• a map that shows man-made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities

  g.one of the 7 large land masses on the earth

• 0 degrees latitude

• imaginary lines that run north to south across the Earth

• the exact location of a place on earth

Hemisphere

• half of the Earth

• study of the earth

• 0 degrees longitude

• the exact location of a place on earth

Prime Meridian

• study of the earth

• imaginary lines that run east to west across the Earth

• a map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.

• 0 degrees longitude

Lines of latitude

• imaginary lines that run north to south across the Earth

• c. imaginary lines that run east to west across the Earth

Lines of longitude

• Imaginary lines that run east and west across the earth

• Imaginary lines that run north and south across the earth

Political Map

• a map that shows man-made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities

• a map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.

• one of the 7 large land masses on the earth

• half of the Earth

Physical Map

• A map that shows man-made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities.

• imaginary lines that run east to west across the Earth

• half of the Earth

• a map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.

Absolute location

• half of the earth

• one of the seven large landmasses on the earth

• The exact position of a place on the earth's surface.

• 0 degrees latitiude

Continent

• one of the 7 large land masses on the Earth

• half of the earth

• the exact position of a place on Earth's surface.

• 0 degrees longitude