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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Altitude is the height of an area, measured from sea level. | altitude |
| The Antarctic Circle is an imaginary circle at latitude 66°30' S, around the south pole. | Antarctic Circle |
| The analemma is a figure-8-shaped diagram that shows the declination of the sun (the angle that the sun is from the equator), for each day in the year. If you took a snapshot of the sun at the same time each day , the Sun would make a figure shape | analemma |
| Antipodes are a pair of points that are on opposite sides of a planet (like the North Pole and the South Pole). | antipodes |
| An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean. | archipelago |
| The Arctic Circle is an imaginary circle at latitude 66°30' N, around the north pole. | Arctic Circle |
| A book containing maps and charts. | atlas |
| An atoll is a ring (or partial ring) of coral that forms an island in an ocean or sea. | atoll |
| An azimuth is the angle that a line makes with a meridian (a line of longitude), going clockwise from north. | azimuth |
| A bathymetric map is a map of the bottom of a body of water, noting the depth contours (these are called isobaths). | bathymetric map |