Key Term Vocab

3. maps shows the location of the geographic areas for which census data are tabulated and disseminated
6. the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment
7. the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator,
8. its exact place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude
9. maps shows legal, jurisdictional, political, or administrative boundaries.
10. an imaginary line on the Earth that officially marks the beginning of one day and the end of another.
14. location a description of how a place is related to other places.
17. the study of the processes that shape the Earth's surface, the animals and plants that inhabit it, and the spatial patterns they exhibit.
20. maps uses elevation contour lines to show the shape of the Earth's surface
21. the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the
22. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.

1. distance above sea level.
2. The prime meridian is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth
4. show large areas like countries or huge geographic areas such as continents
5. the line or course on which something is moving, or at which it is aimed to move, or toward which something is pointing or facing
11. maps a map created to display information about a topic or theme
12. show a smaller amount of area with a greater amount of detail.
13. maps usually include labels for features such as mountain ranges and bodies of water.
15. maps a type of map that uses lines of constant value to represent data values.
16. the way something is spread out or arranged over a geographic area.
18. a thematic map that distorts the size of regions to be directly proportional to a selected variable.
19. the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground