Equator
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
| equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| hemisphere | half of a sphere : half of a round object; a half of the Earth |
| Northern Hemisphere | the half of the Earth that is north of the equator |
| Southern Hemisphere | the half of the Earth that is south of the equator |
| Eastern Hemisphere | the half of the Earth that is east of the Atlantic Ocean and that includes Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia |
| Western Hemisphere | the half of the Earth that is west of the Atlantic Ocean and that includes North and South America |
| archipelago | a group of islands |
| genus | a group of related animals or plants that includes several or many different species |
| species | a group of animals or plants that are similar and can produce young animals or plants : a group of related animals or plants that is smaller than a genus |
| evolution | a theory that the differences between modern plants and animals are because of changes that happened by a natural process over a very long time |
| endemic | growing or existing in a certain place or region |
