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100
one set of circles describing positions north and south of the equator
What is parallels?
100
the angular distance, measured in degrees, east or west of the prime meridian
What is longitude?
100
a circle that divides the globe into halves, or marks the circumference of the globe.
What is a great circle?
100
City located close to 50 degree North and between 130 and 120 degrees West
What is Vancouver?
200
The angular distance north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
200
The 0 degree longitude
What is the prime meridian?
200
the only parallel that is a great circle
What is the equator?
200
City close to 60 degree North and exactly at 150 degrees West.
What is Anchorage?
300
The units of measurement of latitude.
What are Degrees, minutes and seconds?
300
A semi-circle (half of a circle) that runs from pole to pole
What is meridian?
300
The angle between the direction of the geographic pole and the direction in which the compass needle points
What is magnetic declination?
300
City located just above the tropic of Cancer at 80 degrees West
What is Miami?
400
It falls at latitude 0 degree
What is the equator?
400
It decreases as you move from the equator to the poles
What is the distance measured by a degree of longitude?
400
The north end of a compass needle points to it.
What is the geomagnetic north pole?
400
City located at 30 degrees North and 90 degrees West
What is New Orleans?