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Geography |
the study of land, water, plants, animals, and people of a place |
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Relative location |
where a place is in relation to other place |
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Absolute location |
the exact position of a place |
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Lines of Latitude |
east-west (side to side) lines around the Earth |
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Lines of Longitude |
north-south (up and down) lines around the Earth |
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Hemisphere |
a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles |
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Equator |
divides the northern and southern hemisphere
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Prime Meridian |
divides the eastern and western hemisphere |