flashcards for midterm of 2014 for social studies
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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Latitude | - measured north and south form equator (0 deg.)
- north pole is (90 deg.) form equator
(90 deg.) is the maximum for a line of latitude
- one degree of latitude is equal to aprx. 70 miles.
- latitude - "parallel"
- horizontal lines
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Longitude | - measured east and west form prime meridian (0 deg.)
- prime meridian only circles half of world
- longitude - "meridian"
- vertical lines
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Time Zones | - 24 time zones in world
- contiguous U.S. states are divided into 4 time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific
- Alaska and Hawaii are located in separate time zones
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International Date Line | - cuts through pacific ocean at aprx. (80 deg.)of longitude
-when noon at prime meridian, it is midnight at date line; place that marks start of new day
- heading west across date line you gain a day; heading east from Japan to U.S. you lose a day
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