sss11 Describing Exact and Relative Location

Social Studies Skills 11 - Describing Exact and Relative Location. Click Here for the Worksheet! Maps are useful in helping you describe both the exact and relative location sof places on Earth. You identify the exact location of a place by using latitude and longitude coordinates. The point where the line of latitude crosses the line of longitude is the exact loaction. The city of Hakodate, Japan, for example, is located at 42⁰N 140⁰E. Relative location is the position of aplace compared with another place. For example, Australia is wouth of the Equator.

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