Ms. Crone
2012
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Relative and absolute location
Types of maps
◦ Physical and political
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Basic Geography info
◦ Continents and oceans
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Basic vocabulary
◦ Hemisphere, equator
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Geographic Coordinate System
◦ Latitude and longitude, Prime Meridian, Equator,
International Date Line
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There are many different types of maps.
Types of maps and projections:
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Physical maps
Cultural maps
Political maps
Population maps
And many more..
A map projection is any method of
representing the surface of a sphere or other
three-dimensional body on a plane.
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Hemisphere- ½ of the earth
 Northern and Southern, Eastern and Western
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Equator- The imaginary great circle around
the earth's surface, equidistant from the poles
and perpendicular to the earth's axis of
rotation.
◦ Cuts the earth into the Northern and Southern
Hemisphere
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Latitude is the
measure of how far
north or south a
location is from the
equator.
Measured in degrees
by how far away
from the equator
(North or South) a
place is.
66½o N
23½o N
0o
23½o S
66½o S
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Longitude is a measure of how far East or
West a place is from the Prime Meridian.
Prime Meridian = 0o (Greenwich, England)
International Date Line 180o
All lines to the right of the PM is East, and all
lines to the left are West.
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Relative location- a places location compared
to another place
◦ West of Fruitvale
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Absolute location – a place’s position on the
globe, the geographic coordinates of the
place
◦ (33o N, 95o W)
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One absolute location, many relative location
(33o N, 95o W)
1st number is the latitude- how far north or
south of the equator a place is
2nd number is the longitude, how far east or
west of the Prime Meridian a place is
So, this means this location is in the northern
hemisphere and is west of the prime meridian
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40° N, 73°W
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30° N, 31° E
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33° S, 151° E
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35° N, 139° E
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33° S, 18° E
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51° N, 0° W
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34° N, 118° W
◦ New York
◦ Cairo, Egypt
◦ Sydney, Australia
◦ Tokyo, Japan
◦ Cape Town, South Africa
◦ London, UK
◦ Los Angeles, CA