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Antarctic Circle - 66.5 degrees south latitude Aphelion - point in a planet's orbit that is farthest from the sun Arctic Circle - 66.5 degrees North atmosphere - A gaseous shell that surrounds Earth. Biosphere - the part of Earth where life exists Cartography - The science of making maps conformal map projection - corrects the relative shape of landmasses distorts the size of landmasses lines of long/latitude are at right angles Example: Mercator Contours - Isolines that connect points of equal elevation 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°.equivalent map projection - corrects the relative size of landmasses distorts the shape of landmasses lines of long/latitude are curved Example: Albers Equal-Area eye of a hurricane - the calm, low pressure center of a hurricane