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| imaginary line that runs around the earth enter |
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| Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map, indicating their relative positions and elevations. |
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| A diagram that exhibits a relationship, often functional, between two sets of numbers as a set of points having coordinates determined by the relationship. Also called plot. |
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| A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space; area. |
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| A method of projecting maps of parts of the earth's spherical surface on a surrounding cone, which is then flattened to a plane surface having concentric circles as parallels of latitude and radiating lines from the apex as meridians. |
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| The zero meridian (0°), used as a reference line from which longitude east and west is measured. It passes through Greenwich, England. |
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| Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds. |
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| A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate |
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| The angular distance north or south of the earth's equator, measured in degrees along a meridian, as on a map or globe. |
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| Either the northern or southern half of the earth as divided by the equator or the eastern or western half as divided by a meridian. |
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