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Geography!
Lat/Long
Directions!
Relative Location
100
The study of Earth and the way people live on it and use it.
What is geography?
100

An imaginary line measuring distance north or south of the equator.

What is latitude?

100
The four main points of the compass.
What are cardinal directions?
100

A guide telling you what each symbol on a map stands for.

What is a map key?

200
One of Earth's seven large bodies of land.
What is a continent?
200

A line of latitude that divides the globe into norther and southern hemisphetes

What is the equator?

200
Directions halfway between two cardinal directions.
What are intermediate directions?
200

The store is to the _____ of the hospital

What is a southwest?

300

Earth's five largest bodies of water

What is an ocean?

300
An imaginary line, or meridian, measuring east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
300
A drawing that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
300

The school is _____ of the firestation.

What is a northwest? (North is also acceptable)

400
One half of a sphere or globe. Earth can be divided into four of these.
What is a hemisphere?
400

The imaginary lines east or west of Earth's prime meridian that run north and south.

What are lines of longitude?

400

The relationship between two locations that is not specific

What is a relative location?

400

The school is _____ of the hospital

What is a east?

500
An imaginary line encircling Earth halfway between the North and South Pole.
What is the equator?
500
The line of longitude labeled 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
500

The specific location of something using latitude and longitude

What is a absolute location?

500

The gas station is to the ______ of the police station and to the _____ of the firestation.

What is east of the police station and west of the firestation?