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| absolute location | The exact spot on the planet where something resides. |
| continent | Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land. |
| equator | An imaginary line drawn around the Earth equally distant from both poles dividing the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres located at 0º latitude. |
| geography | A science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surface. |
| hemisphere | The northern or southern half of the earth as divided by the equator or the eastern or western half as divided by a meridian. |
| latitude | Angular distance north or south from the earth's equator measured through 90 degrees. |
| longitude | Angular distance measured on a great circle of reference from the intersection of the adopted zero meridian with this reference circle to the similar intersection of the meridian passing through the object. |
| prime meridian | The meridian of 0 degrees longitude which runs through the original site of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, and from which other longitudes are reckoned. |
