MMS Yellow 6 Geography Vocabulary Flashcards
A design on a map that shows directions of north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
Compass Rose
Any of the seven large continuous land masses that constitute most of the dry land on the surface of the earth. They are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Continent
The half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of 180 degrees longitude.
Eastern Hemisphere
An imaginary line circling the globe, equal in distance from the poles; 0 degrees latitude.
Equator
An internationally agreed imaginary line running roughly along the 180 degree meridian of longitude, to the east of which the date is one day earlier than to the west.
International Date Line
The distance north or south of the Equator; lines of latitude run in an east-west direction.
Latitude
The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian; lines of longitude run in a north-south direction.
Longitude
The half of the Earth that is north of the Equator.
Northern Hemisphere
The northernmost point on Earth
North Pole
The line of longitude that is 0 degrees.
Prime Meridian
The half of the Earth that is south of the Equator.
Southern Hemisphere
The southernmost point on Earth
South Pole
The line of latitude that is 23.5 degrees north of the Equator; called the Northern Tropic.
Tropic of Cancer
The line of latitude that is 23.5 degrees south of the Equator; called the Southern Tropic.
Tropic of Capricorn
The half of the Earth that is east of the 180 degrees longitude and west of the Prime Meridian.
Western Hemisphere
