Geography vocabulary

Focuses on where people live, what they do, and how they use the land

• Geography

• Human Geography

• Equator

• Atlas

Displays the meaning of the symbols used to represent geographic data on the map. Sometimes called a "key"

• Continent

• Lattitude

• Legend

• Longitude

A drawing of all or part of the Earth's surface

• Map

• International Data Line

• Longitude

• Geography

Symbol on a map that shows cardinal direction

• Continent

• Human Geography

• Atlas

• Compass Rose

Imaginary line that runs North and South through the Pacific

• International Data Line

• Map Scale

• Artex Ryder

• None of the above

Measures the distance East to West, parallel to the equator

• Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

Half of the earth, East of the prime meridian

• Atlas

• Prime Meridian

• Western hemisphere

• Eastern hemisphere

The study of places and the relationships between people and their environment

• Physical Geography

• Geography

• Human Geography

Books of maps

• Longitude

• Map scale

• None of these

• Atlas

Main land mass on the globe

• Ocean

• Continent

• Mountain