Social Studies Geography Unit 1 Vocab

What is GEOGRAPHY?

• the study of the earth

• the study of your face

What is a CARTOGRAPHER?

• a person with carts

• a mapmaker

What is the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE?

• the half of the earth north of the Equator

• the half of the earth south of the equator

What is the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE?

• the half of the earth north of the equator

• the half of the earth south of the equator

What is the EQUATOR?

• imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole

• a line that shows where the middle is

What is the PRIME MERIDIEN?

• the equator

• meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.

What are LATITUDE LINES?

• vertical lines on the globe

• horizontal lines on the globe

• set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator

• set of lines that run parallel to Prime Meridien

What are LONGITUDE LINES?

• Imaginary north-south lines that run vertically around the globe parallel to the Prime Meridian.

• vertical lines on the globe

• horizontal lines on the globe

What is a COMPASS?

• instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north

• a bunch of arrows

What is the CARDINAL ROSE?

• the compass

• Part of the map that shows the four cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West.