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geography concepts
Absolute location | the location of a place based on a fixed point on earth |
Continent | any of the worlds continuous expanses of land |
Relative location | a point or place in relation to a point or place |
Hemisphere | a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles. |
Equator | 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° |
Prime meridian | the earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England. |
latitude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, |
longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian |
Climate | the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. |
Natural resource |