Chapter 5 Review

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined:

The location of a place in relation to other places.

• absolute location

• compass location

• physical location

• relative location

Choose the correct definition of equator.

• the imaginary line drawn around Earth at zero degrees latitude that divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres

• the imaginary line drawn around Earth at zero degrees longitude that divides Earth into eastern and western hemispheres

• the imaginary line drawn around Earth at ninety degrees latitude that divides Earth into eastern and western hemispheres

• the imaginary line drawn around Earth at ninety degrees longitude that divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined:

a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the prime meridian

• latitude

• longitude

• absolute location

• relative location

Choose the correct definition of absolute location.

• an exact point on Earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such latitude and longitude

• a measure of a location’s distance north or south of the equator

• a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the prime meridian

• an exact point on Earth’s surface that divides the eastern and western hemispheres

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined:

the imaginary line drawn around Earth at zero degrees longitude that divides Earth into eastern and western hemispheres

• prime meridian

• equator

• latitude

• absolute location

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined:

one of the halves of the earth as divided by the equator or by the prime meridian

• globe

• North Pole

• border

• hemisphere

Choose the correct definition of latitude.

• a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the prime meridian

• a measure of a location’s distance south or west of the prime meridian

• a measure of a location’s distance north or south of the equator

• a measure of a location’s distance north or east of the equator