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Basic Geography facts and terms

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#Geography #5th grade

Describes the location of a place in relation to other landmarks

Relative Location

Lines on maps the run East and West

Latitude

Also called Parallells

Lines of Latitude

Measure in degrees north or degrees south

Lines of Latitude

Lines that run from North pole to South Pole

Lines of longitude

called meridians and ARE NOT parallell

Lines of Longitude

Measured in degrees West or Degrees East

lines of Longitude

The EXACT location of any place on Earth

absolute location

imaginary line that Divides the Earth into Western and Eastern Hemisphere

Prime Meridian

Imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and southern hemisphere.

Equator

Latitude and Longitude give you the ________ of a location

coordinates

North, South, East and West are called ___________ directions

Cardinal

A symbol that shows direction on a map

compass rose

The study of places of Earth

Geography

How many continents are there?

By the gas station is an example of what kind of location?

relative