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| The study of Earth’s environment and how it shapes people’s lives and how Earth is shaped in turn by people’s activities. |
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| distance north and south of the equator; measured by a set of lines, or parallels, that run east and west around the Earth. |
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| in geography, any line of latitude north and south of the equator; they never cross or meet |
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| the directions north, south, east and west |
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| a unit of measure on a map, such as an inch that is used to represent a distance on Earth |
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| in geography, a unit of measurement that indicates the distance between line of latitude and longitude;a unit of measurement |
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| an area with common features that set it apart from other areas |
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| the line of longitude marked 0 degrees on the world map, from which longitude East and and West measured. |
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| a drawing on a map that shows directions. |
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| anything that stands for something else |
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| a list of map symbols that tells what each symbol stands for. |
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| one of Earth’s seven large bodies of land |
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| an imaginary line circling Earth halfway between the North and South poles and dividing the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
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| distance east and west of the Prime Meridian measured by a set of imaginary lines, or meridians, that run north and south from Earth’s poles |
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| any line of longitude east or west of Earth’s Prime Meridian. |
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