Unit 1 Vocabulary

The study of the earth and the ways people live and work.

• geography

• vertical

• equator

• grid

Positioned up and down

• parallel

• coordinates

• prime merdian

• vertical

Positioned side to side

• latitude

• horizontal

• vertical

• longitude

two lines that are the same distance apart and never touch

• hemisphere

• grid

• parallel

• geography

Lines that run north and south

• longitude

• latitude

• vertical

• coordinates

lines that run east to west

• latitude

• prime meridian

• continent

• coordinates

center line of longitude

• prime meridian

• equator

• hemisphere

• coordinates

center line of latitude

• coordinates

• equator

• grid

• vertical

half of a round object

• grid

• hemisphere

• equator

• parallel

lines of latitude and longitude that form a grid

• grid

• coordinates

• continent

• latitude