An imaginary line drawn around the earth dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
Equator
The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to March.
Winter
An invisible line around which an object rotates, or spins.
Earth’s axis
A rule determining the distances between marks on a scale.
Scale
The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August
Summer
Also known as elevation is the distance above sea level.
Altitude
A type of map that represents political divisions, or human-created boundaries, of the world, continents.
Political division map.
The part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate.
Tropical zones
Imaginary line extending around the Earth parallel to the equator; it is used to indicate latitude.
Parallel
These are usually any sort of geometric lines that have only an abstract definition and do not physically exist.
Imaginary lines
A zone delimited by the imaginary circles that have characteristics such as climate, vegetation, fauna and precipitation.
Thermal zone
Described as images which show a particular place in a specific point in time.
Historic map
Serve to provide information to tourist, on possible travel routes, on the location of specific landmarks.
Tourist map.
The action of rotating around an axis or center.
Rotation
A map that primarily displays roads and transport links.
Road network map.
The third season of the year, when crops and fruits are gathered and leaves fall, in the northern hemisphere from September to December.
Autumn
The curved path of a celestial object around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
Orbit
A group of numbers used to indicate the position of a point, line, or plane.
Coordinates
It is measured with 180 imaginary lines that form circles around the Earth east-west, parallel to the Equator.
Latitudes
The season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear.
Spring
It is the one that the Earth accomplishes around the Sun. It describes an elliptical orbit.
Translation
A year, occurring once every four years, that has 366 days including February 29 as an intercalary day.
Leap year
The time when day and night are of approximately equal length (about September 22 and March 20).
Equinox
The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
Climate
The time or date (twice each year) at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum illumination, getting the longest and shortest days (about June 21 and December 22).
Solstice
Longitude is measured by imaginary lines that run around the Earth vertically (up and down) and meet at the North and South Poles.
Longitude
Each of the two belts of latitude between the tropical zone and the northern and southern polar zones.
Temperate zone
The prime meridian, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
Greenwich meridian.