Vocab Words

2. Grid the grid system made up of lines of longitude and latitude- allows absolute location to be identified anywhere on the planet.
7. one of the five themes, where something can be found
8. Meridian zero degrees longitude
10. a 3 dimensional map of the Earth
11. the shared beliefs, behaviors, customs, and traditions of a group
14. one of the five themes, how similar areas are group/ organized
16. Directions Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast
17. tool on map that shows relative size distance
18. zero degrees latitude

1. a map with known distortion
3. the global grid lines that run vertically
4. The global grid lines that run horizontally
5. Directions North, East, South, West
6. the global positioning satellite system
9. one of the five themes, the human and physical geography of a location
10. The study of the Earth, its physical and human systems, and how they are organized and interact
12. Environment Interaction One-of the five themes, how humans change the Earth. Adapt to the Earth.
13. one of the five themes, how people, stuff, and ideas get from one location to
15. Inaccuracy on maps (objects stretched, squeezed, misshaped, too close, too apart,etc) caused by making 2 dimensional images of a 3 dimensional object (the earth)