Geography - ANS the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human
activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources,
land use, and industries.
Absolute location - ANS Absolute Location describes an object's loc...
Geography definition Chapter 1 & 2
Geography - ANS the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human
activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources,
land use, and industries.
Absolute location - ANS Absolute Location describes an object's location, relative to Earth. For instance,
latitude and longitude coordinates are an example of Absolute Location. Relative location is more
general and can be used relative to the surroundings of the object.
Relative location - ANS Absolute location, however, is a term with little real meaning, since any location
must be expressed relative to something else. For example, longitude is the number of degrees east or
west of the Prime Meridian, a line arbitrarily chosen to pass through Greenwich, London.
Hemisphere - ANS a half of a sphere. 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. a half of the celestial sphere.
Equator - ANS an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the
earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
a corresponding line on a planet or other body.
Prime meridian - ANS a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude.
Latitude - ANS the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial
object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
Longitude - ANS the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or
west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
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