Mapping Our World Vocabulary (part 2)

Way to display the world onto a flat map.

• Map layout
• Location

• Globe

• Projection

Where something is

• Distance
• Location
• Sphere

• Direction

Where something is in relation to something else

• Coordinates

• Absolute location
• Relative location

• Direction

Imaginary lines running up and down - or north and south - on the globe

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Equators
• Hemisphere

A round, solid figure.

• Sphere

• Globe

• Ball

• Map

Number of people living in a given amount of space

• Population growth
• Population density
• Topography

• Location

Surface of the land that includes natural and human-made features.

• Globe

• Topography

• Coordinates

• Environment

Imaginary line dividing the globe from north to south that is the starting line for longitude

• Equator
• Tropic of Cancer
• Prime Meridian
• International Date Line