Vocabulary 1
A flat drawing of all or part of the Earth.
What is a map?
Pattern of lines drawn to make rows and columns on a map.
What is a grid?
A measurement used to determine the distance between two places in the world. Distances are usually counted in kilometers and miles.
What is a map scale?
A map that shows places and events from the past.
What is a historical map?
An imaginary line, which runs north and south mostly through the Pacific Ocean. Its purpose, on maps and globes, is to separate the time zones of the Earth into two consecutive calendar days.
What is the International Date Line?
Model of the Earth shaped like a ball or sphere.
What is a globe?
Horizontal lines that run parallel around the Earth. They are numbered 0 degrees to 90 degrees north and 0 degrees to 90 degrees south.
What are lines of latitude?
A map that shows land features and elevations, including cities, mountain ranges, boundaries and rivers.
What is a physical or topographic map?
A division of the Earth's surface in which standard time is kept.
What is a time zone?
Spreading of a cultural trait (such as an object, behavior, idea, custom, etc.,) from one society to another.
What is cultural diffusion or spatial diffusion?
Symbols on globes and maps to help you find directions.
What is a compass rose?
The 0 degree line of latitude which divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
A map which shows how a country is organized.
What is a political map?
Imaginary lines above and below the equator that represent the most northern point and the most southern point on the Earth where the sun shines from directly overhead.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
The study of how physical characteristics (land forms, climate and ecosystems) define a region.
What is physical geography?
North, South, East and West
What are cardinal directions?
Lines that run vertically around the Earth. They are numbered from 0 degrees to 180 degrees east and 0 degrees to 180 degrees west.
What are lines of longitude?
A guide for understanding a map that shows symbols such as those representing cities, boundaries, or land forms.
What is a legend or map key?
A point located in the upper most region of the Earth at the Arctic Circle.
What is the North Pole?
The study of cultural characteristics (ethnic origins, language, religion, historical settlements, and political and economic patterns) that may define regions.
What is cultural geography?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
The 0 degree line of longitude which divides the Earth into the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.
What is the prime meridian?
A map that shows the resources and products of a country which provide an income and standard of living for the people.
What is an economic map?
A point located in the southernmost region of the Earth in the Antarctic Circle.
What is the South Pole?
Geographic regions which serve as natural defensible borders.
What are strategic locations?