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Map Skills Vocab

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Longitude   show
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Latitude   show
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Map Legend   show
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Map scale   show
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Absolute location   show
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show Absolute location,however, is a term with little real meaning, since any location must be expressed relative to something else. For example, longitude is the number of degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian, a line arbitarily chosen to pass through.  
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Parallels   show
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Medridians   show
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Hemisphere   show
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show An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0  
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Prime meridian   show
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show On the surface of the earth (or of a celestial object) that ends of the axis of rotation  
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show On the surface of the earth that ends at the axis of rotation.  
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