World Geography Chapter 1 Vocab

A person who makes maps

• navigator
• cartographer
• geographer
• surveyor

An imaginary line that follows the curve of the Earth and represents the shortest distance between two points

• Shortest Path
• Earth Line
• Great Circle route

• Straight Line

A mathematical formula used to represent the curved surface of the Earth on the flat surface of a map

• Earth projection
• Globe transformation
• Surface conversion
• Map projection

A map created by projecting an image of the Earth onto a geometric plane

• Planar Projection

• Conic Projection

• Cylindrical Projection

• Globe Projection

A map created by projecting Earth's image onto a cylinder

• Spherical projection map
• Cylindrical projection

• Cylinder Earth map
• Globe map

A map created by projecting an image of Earth onto a cone placed over part of an Earth model

• Azimuthal projection
• Cylindrical projection
• Conic projection
• Mercator projection

The exact position of a place on the Earth's surface

• Absolute location

• Equator and Prime Meridian
• Longitude and latitude coordinates
• Latitude and altitude coordinates

Location in relation to other places

• Relative location

• Geographical connection
• Spatial relationship
• Topographical correlation

The height of a land surface above the level of the sea

• Elevation
• Latitude
• Depth
• Altitude

The variation in elevation across an area of Earth's land

• Geography
• Altitude
• Terrain
• Relief