1.2 World

Use this domain for words referring to the planet we live on.

  • What words refer to the planet we live on?
    the world, earth, the Earth, the globe, the planet
  • What words describe something that belongs to this world?
    earthly, terrestrial
  • What words describe something that affects the whole world?
    world (adj), global, worldwide, universal
  • What words are used to talk about the whole world, all the countries, or all the people?
    the whole world, the entire earth, all over the world, round the world,
  • What words refer to a part of the world?
    hemisphere, North Pole, South Pole, pole, polar, polar cap, equator, tropics, tropical, continent, time zone, the Third World, the West, the East, Orient
  • What words refer to the study of the world?
    geography, geographical, geographer, geology