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Social Studies
5th Grade Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Continent | any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America). |
| Ocean | a very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically. |
| Hemisphere | a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles. |
| Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| Latitude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
| Parallel | (of lines, planes, surfaces, or objects) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them. |
| Longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
| Meridian | a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles. |
| Prime meridian | a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude. |
| Symbol | a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation. |
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