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| City maps | Maps that show a city’s network of streets as well as its points of interest |
| Compass Directions | The cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West that are given on a map |
| Equator | A line (or parallel) that goes around the world and splits the earth into two halves, or hemispheres—the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere |
| Globe | A three-dimensional model of the earth that uses a geographic grid to measure locations and is reduced from the actual size of the earth using scale; it is usually 42 million times smaller than |
| Grid | A system of intersecting lines |
| Hemispheres | two equal parts, or halves, of the earth such as the Northern and Southern |
| Latitude | imaginary lines on a globe that help us measure distance from the equator |
| Longitude | imaginary lines on a globe that help us measure distance from the prime meridian |
| Map | A picture of the earth’s features that shows direction, distance, size, and shape. |
| Meridian | A set of north-south lines that make up the longitudinal component on a map or globe. |
| Prime Meridian | The most important of all meridian, it is located at zero degrees North and South longitude |
| Scale | A fraction or ratio that describes the relationship between two objects |
