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1. How do geographers describe where things are?
geographers can describe the location of a place by site.
2. What is the site?
Is the physical character of a place.
3. what are the two reason of a situation to indicate location?
unfamiliar place and understanding is importance.
4.what are two purposes that maps serve?
As a reference tool and as a communication tool.
5.what is an absolute location?
It is a position as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
6. what is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the earth's surface.
Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the earth's surface.
7. who found the first world maps?
is by Eratosthenes in 195 BCE
8. what is a time zone
is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal,commercial,and social purposes.
9.What is UTC?
Is the primary time standard which the world regulats locks and Greenwich, Mean time (GMT) is often as a synonym for UTC
10.  Name the lines on the map.
find latitude and longitude
Arctic circle
Tropic of cancer
Equator
Tropic of Capricorn
Antarctic circle.



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