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Unit 1

Vocab

TermDefinition
Latitude Measures North or South of the equator.
Longitude Measurements East or West of the Meridian.
Prime Meridian The prime meridian is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth.
Equator an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into the northern and southern hemisphere and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
Parallels :They are imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run east to west, but measure your distance north or south. The equator is the most well known parallel. At 0 degrees latitude, it equally divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres
Meridians A meridian is any imaginary line running vertically between the North and South Poles of a planet. The prime meridian is the meridian marking zero longitude. On Earth, this line runs through Greenwich, England
Compass Rose a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.
Map Key It is a little box of information found at the bottom of a map. It contains an explanation of what the different lines and symbols on the map mean, as well as a scale for you to work out distance
Map scale this measures how much the features of the world are reduced to fit on a map; or more precisely, map scale shows the proportion of a given distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the ground in the real world
Cardinal Directions These directions are the four main directions of the compass.
Intermediate Directions those located between the cardinal directions
Inset Map An inset map, also known as a locator map or a small-scale map, is a map that shows a larger area in context to a smaller area.
Map title The map's title tells what the map is about, revealing the map's purpose and content.
Grid A network of intersecting parallel lines, whether real or imaginary
Symbols A graphic used to represent a geographic feature or class of features.
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