Chapter 3 Vocabulary- Gallopade

one of the halves of the Earth as divided by the equator or by the prime meridian

• Hemisphere

• Quadrant

• Zone

• Section

the imaginary line drawn around Earth at 0 degrees latitude; divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• International Date Line

Lines in the same direction and at the same distance apart

• Perpendicular

• Intersecting

• Parallel

• Converging

a measure of a location’s distance north or south of the Equator

• Longitude

• Altitude

• Latitude

• Elevation

a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

• Latitude

• Altitude

• Longitude

• Equator

the imaginary line drawn around Earth at 0 degrees longitude ; divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• International Date Line

• Tropic of Cancer

Gives the exact point of location on Earth’s surface; uses coordinates

• Relative Location

• Absolute Location

• Geographic Positioning

• Spatial Reference