WORLD MAP

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WORLD MAP
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Vocabulary

• Latitude the distance, measured in degrees on
  the map, that a place is north or south of the
  Equator
• Longitude the distance, measured in degrees on
  the map, that a place is east or west of a
  standard north-south line, usually that which
  passes through Greenwich
• Equator an imaginary line around the Earth
  forming the great circle that is equal from the
  north and south poles "the equator is the
  boundary between the northern and southern
  hemispheres" 
• Prime Meridian the meridian running through
  Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and
  west is reckoned.

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Tricks to Remember

• Latitude sounds like Ladder
• Measures north and south
• Lat is flat! (flat lines not vertical)

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How To Use It

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