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Term | Definition |
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cardinal directions | North, East, South, West |
cartographer | person who makes maps |
0 degrees latitude | Equator |
0 degrees longitude | Prime Meridian |
the 5 oceans | Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern |
latitude lines are ... | parallel and circle around the earth |
longitude lines .... | get closer at the poles and have a complimentary line of longitude |
23½° South | Tropic of Capricorn |
23½° North | Tropic of Cancer |
90° South | South Pole |
90° North | North Pole |
the hemispheres | northern or southern AND eastern or western |
intermediate directions | northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest |
source | where a river begins |
mouth | where a river empties |
downstream | the flow of a river from higher to lower elevation |
strait | narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water |
coordinates | latitude and longitude of a place |
tributary | river that flows into another river |
saltwater | ocean, sea, gulf, bay, cove |