geography terms

One of the principle land masses of the earth

• Ocean

• North/south poles

• Continent

• Globe

the bodies of salt water covering approximately 70 percent of the earth's surface

• Continent

• Oceans

• Hemisphere

• North/south poles

A circle or decorative device printed on a map or chart showing the points of the compass

• Compass rose

• Legend

• Map

• Atlas

An explanatory table or list of the symbols appearing on a map or chart

• Map scale

• Political map

• Physical map

• Legend (key)

The angular distance north or south of the earth's equator

• Longitude

• Latitude

• International date line

• Scale

Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the Prime Meridian

• Longitude

• Latitude

• International date line

• North/south poles

The imaginary great circle around the earth's surface, equidistant from the poles

• International date line

• Prime meridian

• Equator

• Hemisphere

A meridian used as a reference line from which longitude east and west is measured.

• Prime meridian

• Equator

• International date line

• Hemisphere

Either the northern or southern half of the earth as divided by the equator or the eastern or western half as divided by a meridian.

• International date line

• Globe

• Prime meridian

• Hemisphere (4)

Arepresentation, usualy on aplane surface, of a region of the earth

• Atlas

• Map

• Globe

• Political map