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Geography Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One of the Earth’s seven large bodies of land. | Continent |
| One of the halves of the Earth. Means “half a sphere” in Greek | Hemisphere |
| An imaginary line dividing the world into the Northern and Southern hemispheres | Equator |
| Distance east or west of the prime meridian measured by an imaginary set of lines or meridians that run north and south from the Earth’s poles | Longitude |
| Any line of longitude east or west of Earth’s prime meridian | Meridian |
| the line of longitude marked 0 degrees on the world | Prime Meridian |
| Distance north or south of the equator, measured by a set of imaginary lines, or parallels, that run east and west around the Earth | Latitude |
| In geography any line of latitude north or south of the equator; parallels never cross or meet. | Parallel |
| The directions of north, south, east, and west. | Cardinal Directions |
| The directions of halfway between the cardinal directions northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest. | Intermediate Directions |
| A drawing on a map that shows direction. | Compass Rose |
| A unit of measure on a map, such as an inch, that is used to represent distance on the Earth. | Scale |
| Anything that stands for something else. | Symbol |
| A list of map symbols that tells what each symbol stands for | Map Key |
| A small map that shows where the subject area of a main map is located | Locator |
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