Geography Final

Washington D.C is located 39 degrees North latitude, 77 degrees West longitude

• relative location

• absolute location

• prime meridian

The city of Cheyenne Wyoming is in the southeastern corner of the state, near Nebraska border

• relative location

• absolute location

• equator

if your research project required a three dimensional view of earth, you would need to consult

• topographic map

• globe

• hemisphere

if you were traveling from the Northern half of the earth to the southern half of the earth, you would cross the

• meridian

• equator

• globe

canada, USA, and mexico are on the

• East hemisphere

• West hemisphere

imaginary line that divides the Eastern and the western hemisphere

• equator

• prime meridian

• grid

imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator measures degrees of

• latitude

• longitude

• equator

imaginary lines that go from the north pole to the south pole

• longitude

• latitutde

• grid

one disadvantage of maps is that they

• are not portable

• distorts the earth's surface

• provide less information than a globe

most map data today is gathered today by

• remote sensing

• a database

• walking the land