Location Flashcards
What is Relative Location?
The location of a place in relation to another place.
What is Absolute Location?
The exact identifying place of something.
What are the Hemispheres?
The North, South, East, and West Hemispheres.
How are the Hemispheres divided?
By the Equator and by the Prime Meridian.
What is Latitude?
A horizontal coordinate measurement of the Earth. Latitude divides the Earth at the Equator.
What is Longitude?
A vertical coordinate measurement of the Earth. Longitude divides the Earth at the Prime Meridian.
What is the Geographic Grid?
A grid that divides the world into lines that go East, West, North, and South.
Why is the Geographic Grid so important now?
Several technologies such as GPS use it.
Modern GPS technology locates a place based on ___.
The Geographic Grid.
