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When you draw both lines they cross at the location you are looking for.

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By taking a ruler and making one measurement up from the floor and one

measurement from the corner of the room, you can come up with two numbers

that exactly describe the location of any point on the entire wall.

By doing exactly the same thing on the globe, you can come up with two numbers

that exactly describe the location of any point on the entire Earth. You just have to

know where each measurement starts from. And the rulers are printed right there

on the globe for you.

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Think of them as the x and y coordinates on a coordinate graph. If a geographer wants to know the exact location of a location, for example a city, they could use the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates to pinpoint the city on a map or globe.

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They help geographers determine location on the globe and earth

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the line of longitude helps when reading a map because it gives you the exact point of a place or location.

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compare and contrast volcanic mountains folded mountains and unwrapped mountains using a three-circle venn diagram

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absolute location

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What lines are part of a grid system on the map?

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Every parallel of latitude crosses every meridian of longitude.


Why would you use lines of latitude and longitude?

Lines of latitude and longitude allows any position on the Earth to be plotted.


How can you tell the difference between latitude lines and longitude lines?

Latitude is side to side and longitude is up and down.