Geography Basics

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What is latitude?

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A geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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What is longitude?

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A geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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What is a hemisphere?

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Half of the Earth, usually 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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What is a compass rose?

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A figure on a map or nautical chart used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (North, East, South, and West) and their intermediate points.

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What is the equator?

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An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.

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What is the prime meridian?

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The planet's line of zero degrees longitude, from which all other longitudes are measured. It runs through Greenwich, England.