Geographic Terms

4. A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.
5. Regions, especially with reference to their temperature and distance from the equator.
7. A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles.
8. Date Line A dateline: an imaginary line on the surface of the earth.
12. The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present.
13. A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
14. hemisphere The land hemisphere, sometimes capitalized as the Land Hemisphere, is the hemisphere on the Earth containing the largest possible area.
15. The angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial...: "at a longitude of 2° W"; "lines of longitude".
17. A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.: "a street map".
18. meridian The prime meridian, which passes through the former Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, adopted internationally as the earth's zero.
20. A spherical representation of the earth or of the constellations with a map on the surface.
21. A framework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other; a grating.

1. A half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves.
2. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America). contour map
3. a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline. Larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
6. A narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
8. directions The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions of north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials.
9. a large group or chain of islands
10. A triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.
11. The Cape River is a river of New Zealand. A tributary of the Opouawe River, it is located in the Wairarapa in the southern North Island.
16. A deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth
19. A place on the coast where vessels may find shelter, espectially one protected from rough water by piers, jetties, and other artificial structures.