Map Skills Vocabulary Study Guide for Quiz

One of Earth's seven large bodies of land.

• continent

• hemisphere

• region

• climate

One of the halves of Earth

• equator

• prime meridian

• hemisphere

• meridians

An imaginary line circling Earth halfway between the North and South poles and dividing Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• prime meridian

• equator

• latitude

• longitude

Distance east or west of the prime meridian measured by a set of imaginary lines, or meridians that run north and south from Earth's poles.

(vertical lines)

• longitude

• latitude

• equator

• prime meridian

Any line of longitude east or west of Earth's prime meridian.

• meridians

• longitude

• latitude

• prime meridian

The line of longitude marked zero degrees on the world map, from which longitude east and west are measured.

• meridian

• equator

• longitude

• prime meridian

Distance north or south of the equator, measured by a set of imaginary lines, or parallels, that run east and west around Earth.

(horizontal lines)

• longitude

• latitude

• equator

• parallels

In geography, any line of latitude north or south of the equator; these lines never cross or meet.

• latitude

• longitude

• parallels

• meridians

Directions that are north, east, south, and west

(Never Eat Soggy Waffles)

• cardinal directions

• intermediate directions

• compass rose

• symbols

The directions halfway between the cardinal directions; northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest

• cardinal directions

• intermediate directions

• compass rose

• map scale