Ch. 2 Geography Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| latitude | the location north or south of the equator.
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| longitde | the location east or west of the equator.
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| parallel | the line representing the circle on a map or graph.
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| meridian | a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface.
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| degree | any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action, a point in any scale.
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| minute | an exact point in time; instant;moment.
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| hemisphere | one half of the eaarth, divided by the equator into northern and southern halves, or by the 0 degrees and 100 degrees meridians into eastern and western halves.
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| equator | the imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude that divides the earth into to a northern half, the Northern Hemisphere, and he southern half, the Southern Hemisphere.
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| prime meridian | the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude.
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| projection | the transfer of an imageof a curved surface onto a flat surface.
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| physical map | a general purpose map that shows the natural features of an area.
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| topography | the physical features of the earth's surface and their relationships to ne another in terms of location and elevation.
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| political map | a general purpose map that shows both the topography and recognized boundries of an area.
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| legend | an explanation of a map's symbols and scale.
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| symbol | pictures that epresent what the legend syas.
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| Tropic of Cancer | located at 0 degrees latitude above the equator. It is when the sun is directly over head at noon.
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| Tropic of Capricorn | located at 23degrees30's. Marks the Southernmost where this occurs.
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| Artic Circle | marks the northernmost point where the sun can be seen in the winter.
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| Antartic Circle | marks the southernmost point in which the sun can be seen in the winter.
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| solstice | Happens every year on december 21 and is when the sun never sets south of the Antiartic Circle.
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