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Map Skills Vocab

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show The angular distance of a pace east or west of the meridian at Greenwich,England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial Object.  
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show The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth or a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usualy expressed in degrees and minutes  
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Map Legend   show
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show Map scale refers to the relationship(or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. For example, on a 1:100000 scale map 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground  
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Absolute location   show
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Relative location   show
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Parallels   show
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show A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles.  
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Hemisphere   show
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Equator   show
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show A planet's meridian adpoted as the zero of longitude. The earth's Zeron of longitude which by convention passes through greenwich, England  
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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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