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| scale | a calibrated as onn a map to idicate such a proportion |
| symbol | something else by association,resemblance or convention |
| compass rose | a circle graduated to degrees or quarters and printed on a chart or map to show direction |
| elevation map | a map that shows the night above sea level |
| intermediate direction | the directions between the cardinal directions |
| historical map | a map information about the past |
| physical map | a map that shows land features such as lakes, rivers, mountians and deserts |
| political map | a map mainly showing political divisions such as national or state boundries cities and capitals |
| locater map | a small map that shows where the subject area of a main map is located |
| disribution map | a special purpose map that shows how a particular feature sudh as population density is spread over an area |
| map key | a list of map of symbols |
| latitude | distance north orn south of the equator measured by a set of imaginary lines that run east and west |
| longitude | distance east or west of the prime merdian mesured by a set of imaginary lines that run north or south |
| prime meridian | the line of longitude marked 0* |
| continet | one of the earths large bodies of land |
| meridian | any line of longitude east or west of earths prime meridian |
| hemisphere | one of the halfes of the earth |
| equator | an imaginary line circling earth halfway between the north and south poles |
| cardinal direections | the directions north south east and west |
| parallel | in goegraphy, any line of latitude north or south of the equator |
| absolute location | the exact location of a place in the world that is describe using longitude and latitude |
| relative location | not exact location; a location of a place using directions and where it is near |
| time zones | a geography region where the same standard time od used there are 24 of these in the world |
| international dateline | an imaginary line in the pacific ocean marking the boundary betweenone day and the next at 180* longitude |
| tropic of cancer | 23* north the imaginary line that is the northern boundary for the Tropical zone |
| tropic of capricorn | 23* south the imaginary line that is in the southern boundary for the tropical zone |
