| A | B |
| globe | a model that shows Earth as it looks when seen from outer space |
| continents | large bodies of land |
| ocean | large bodies of salt water |
| hemisphere | half a sphere |
| equator | an imaginary line circling Earth halfway between the North and South poles |
| latitude | distance north or south of the equator; measured by a set of imaginary lines or parallels,that run east and west around earth |
| longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian measured by a set of imaginary lines, or meridians, that run north or south from Earth's poles |
| prime meridian | the line of longitude marked 0 degrees on the world map from which longitude east and west are measured |
| parallel | any line of latitude north or south of the equator; never cross or meet |
| meridian | any line of longitude east or west of Earth's prime meridian |