7th Grade Geography Vocabulary

A book of maps

• Continents

• Atlas

• Map

• Hemisphere

Parallel 23.5 degrees SOUTH of the equator; parallel on the globe at which the sun's most direct rays strike the earth during the December solstice (first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere)

• Tropic of Cancer

• Degree

• Longitude

• Tropic of Capricorn

Shows distance on a map - usually in miles or kilometers

• Meridian

• Parallel

• Scale

• Latitude

Parallel 23.5 degrees NORTH of the equator; parallel on the globe at which the sun's most direct rays strike the earth during the June solstice (first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere)

• Directional Indicator

• Tropic of Cancer

• Grid

• Tropic of Capricorn

0 degrees longitude - it runs through Greenwich, England - an imaginary line that cuts the Earth in half (east and west)

• Prime Meridian

• Meridian

• Hemisphere

• Continent

Smallest term for identifying latitude and longitude

• Geography

• Compass Rose

• Minutes

• Tropic of Capricorn

Another name for latitude lines

• Parallel

• Scale

• Directional Indicator

• Degree

A flat diagram of the earth's surface

• Scale

• Hemisphere

• Degree

• Map

Another name for lines of longitude

• Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Meridians

Lines that run up and down and pass through the north and south poles - they tell you east and west

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Landforms

• Hemisphere