• Is the representation or picture of all or part of the

surface of the earth.

• The best guides & sources of general information.

Is the most common map used

by geographers.

Is the outline of a place to

represent the shape & size of

land & water areas.

• Is a kind of map

that is similar to

peeling strips from

a globe.

Dutch Gerhard

Mercator

-invented the Mercator

Map.

Is an oval map in which the areas

near the poles have not been

stretched.

Also called World land Masses

Map it is a picture of the globe in

which the areas near the pole

have not been stretched.

Is the ideal tool for teachers and

students of geography because it

is a scale model in three

dimensions of the earth.

• Is the condition of

the air at any one

time.

• It indicates how

warm or cold, wet

or dry, sunny,

cloudy, stormy or

calm is on a given

day.

• Is the pattern of

changes in

weather over a

number of years.

• Equinox

is the number of daylight hours and nighttime hours is exactly equal all over the world.

• Summer Solstice

it is the longest day of the year to the Northern hemisphere.

• Winter Solstice

shortest day and the longest night of the year.

The process by which water is

constantly moving from ocean to

air to land and back to the ocean.

The process when water or

liquid changes into gas or water

vapor.

The process of plants emitting water

vapor.

The process of cooling the air and

the water vapor in it changes into liquid.

The result of water that falls to earth.

Are found near the equator.

Average temperatures for these

climates are high-over 18 degrees C.

Have warm temperatures all year.

Have little rainfall.

Very dry, or arid climate, little or no

rain falls during the year.

Are classified into three different

types:

a. Humid Oceanic Cold Climate

b. Humid Continental Cold Climate

c. Sub-artic Climate

Are classified into cool-summer

polar and year-round polar climates.

Are found in mountain regions.

Also called rock sphere.

It is the solid portion.

Also called water sphere because it

is made up of liquid portion.

It is the air portion.

Is a line drawn around the globe that

divides the north & south parts of the

earth.

Are the lines drawn around the

global parallel to each other showing

the position of a place north or south of

the equator.

Tells how far east or west is and is

measured from the 0 degree line called

the prime meridian, to a line numbered

180 degrees.

Are the parallel lines of latitude and

meridians of longitude cross upon each

other around the globe.