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A book of maps. | Atlas. |
Height above sea level. | elevation. |
A small symbol that shows direction on a map. | Compass rose |
A half of the Earth. | hemisphere |
Study or the Earth and everything on it. | Geography. |
Latitude line 66 1/2 degrees north. | Artic Circle |
Latitude line 66 1/2 south | Antartic Circle |
meridians that run north/ south on a map or globe | longitude |
Shows specific info like climate or population | Thematic map |
measures distance on a map | scale bar |
A guide to the symbolon a map | map key |
relationship between the distance in real life and the distance on a map | map sclae |
North, South, East, West | Cardinal dircitions |
Average wether patter of an area | climate |
The main line of latitude | Equater |
pie- shape graph Shows" whole divided | circle graph |
a ball shaped map of the earth | globe |
Averagenumber of people per square mile | population density |
a graph that compares infomation | bar graph |
when latitude/ longitude ines cross each other | grid system |
Makes comarison- uses symbols/ pictures | pictograph |
how far and in what direction one place is to another | relative location |
a graph way of presenting info in an organized way | chart |
a map showing people made boundaries | political map |
shows elevation | phyiscal map |
the exact position of a place on Earth | absolute location |
shows climate weather in spefic place | clomite graph |