How Geographers Describe Where things are review

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Today in class we went over the geography test. I did not do so good on it some of the answers I got wrong were What was not included in the first world map the answer was the Americas and what is the most popular style of map in American classrooms is the Mercator map. The line found at 0 degrees longitude is the prime meridian and the line at 0 degrees latitude is the equator. The name of the arcs drawn between the North and South poles are Meridians the name for the lines drawn equally distant from the equator are Parallels. Greenwich Mean Time is NOT established at the intersection of the prime meridian and the equator. Bel Air, Maryland is two hours behind California. 

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