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| grid | A network of lines that form a pattern of crisscrosses. |
| axis | the imagionary rod around which the earth turns. |
| latitude | The distance measured in degrees north to south from the Equator to the earth's poles. |
| longitude | The distance measured in degrees east to west of the Prime Meridian. |
| cartographer | A person who makes maps. |
| anno Domini | A Latin term meaning 'in the year of the Lord.' Also known as A.D. |
| projection | the representation on a map of all or part of the earth's grid system. |
| scale | the relationship between real size and size used on maps and models. |
| meridian | Another name for a line of Longitude |
| Prime Meridian | The line of 0 degrees longitude that passes through Greenwich, England. |
| altitude | Height above sea level. |
| atlas | A collection of maps |
| climate | The kind of weather a place has over a long period of time. |
| distortion | the twisting or streching out of a shape. |
| parallel | an imagionary line of latitude running in an east-west direction on a map |
| hemisphere | Half a sphere, or ball. |
