Geography Terms

Tittle

Tells you what you are looking at.

Compass rose

Tells you where you are looking at

Cardinal directions

North, East, South, West.

Intermediate

NE,SE,NW,SW middle directions .

Continuous

Connect u.s 48 states

Legend/key

Tells you what the symbols mean.

Inset map

Zoomed out view of the surrounding area.

Political map

is shows states city’s and borders.

scale

helps you estimate the difference.

physical map

shows physical features like water ,river, mountains and oceans

equator

splits the world in into the northern and southern hemisphere.

prime meridian

imaginary line that splits earth into eastern and western

Degrees

measuring units of latitude and longitude.

medians/longitude

imaginary lines on earth that run between north and south pole.

parallels and latitude.

imaginary lines on earth that run east to west like the equator

north pole

the point ion earth located at 90 degrees north latitudes that the lines of latitude meet.

south pole

the point ion earth located at 90 degrees south latitudes that the lines of latitude meet.

Cartographer

it is a mapmaker.

Hemisphere

half of the earth split by either the prime meridian or the equator.

Northern Hemisphere

North America , Europe and Asia.

Southern Hemisphere

Antarctica,Australia,south America .

Eastern Hemisphere

Asia and Australia,

western hemisphere

North and south America,

Geographic Grid

a pattern of lines that form squares.

Index

an ABC listing of place names on a map and the grid squares in which they are found example B6 or C7

Relative location

where a place is located by comparing it to other landmarks places or areas around it.

Absolute location

uses latitude and longitude coordinates to determine the exact location of a place