This document provides definitions and descriptions of key geographic concepts: - Maps are representations of the Earth's surface and come in many forms, such as physical maps, globe maps, and political maps. The most common map used by geographers is the azimuthal equidistant projection map. - Weather describes current atmospheric conditions in a place at a given time, while climate refers to long-term weather patterns over many years in an area. Key weather events include equinoxes and solstices. - The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface, through processes like evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation. - Major climate types include tropical

2. • Is the representation or
picture of all or part of the
surface of the earth.
• The best guides & sources of
general information.

4. Is the most common map used
by geographers.

5. Is the outline of a place to
represent the shape & size of
land & water areas.

6. • Is a kind of map
that is similar to
peeling strips from
a globe.
Dutch Gerhard
Mercator
-invented the Mercator
Map.

7. Is an oval map in which the areas
near the poles have not been
stretched.

8. Also called World land Masses
Map it is a picture of the globe in
which the areas near the pole
have not been stretched.

9. Is the ideal tool for teachers and
students of geography because it
is a scale model in three
dimensions of the earth.

11. • Is the condition of
the air at any one
time.
• It indicates how
warm or cold, wet
or dry, sunny,
cloudy, stormy or
calm is on a given
day.
• Is the pattern of
changes in
weather over a
number of years.

12. • Equinox
 is the number of daylight hours and nighttime
hours is exactly equal all over the world.
• Summer Solstice
 it is the longest day of the year to the
Northern hemisphere.
• Winter Solstice
 shortest day and the longest night of the
year.

14. The process by which water is
constantly moving from ocean to
air to land and back to the ocean.

15.  The process when water or
liquid changes into gas or water
vapor.

16.  The process of plants emitting water
vapor.

17.  The process of cooling the air and
the water vapor in it changes into liquid.

18.  The result of water that falls to earth.

20. Are found near the equator.
Average temperatures for these
climates are high-over 18 degrees C.

21.  Have warm temperatures all year.

22. Have little rainfall.
Very dry, or arid climate, little or no
rain falls during the year.

23. Are classified into three different
types:
a. Humid Oceanic Cold Climate
b. Humid Continental Cold Climate
c. Sub-artic Climate

24.  Are classified into cool-summer
polar and year-round polar climates.

25.  Are found in mountain regions.

27. Also called rock sphere.
It is the solid portion.

28.  Also called water sphere because it
is made up of liquid portion.

29.  It is the air portion.

30.  Is a line drawn around the globe that
divides the north & south parts of the
earth.

31.  Are the lines drawn around the
global parallel to each other showing
the position of a place north or south of
the equator.

32.  Tells how far east or west is and is
measured from the 0 degree line called
the prime meridian, to a line numbered
180 degrees.

33.  Are the parallel lines of latitude and
meridians of longitude cross upon each
other around the globe.