1. Geography
Tools of the Trade Part 1

2. Key Question
What is the difference between Absolute and Relative Location?

3. Relative Location
Relative Location: Definition: A location of a place in relation to another place (i.e. south or downhill).
Examples: The relative location of Kansas City, Missouri is just east of Kansas City, Kansas.
Victoria East High school is east of Downtown Victoria

5. Absolute Location
Definition: A point on the earth's surface expressed a global coordinate system such as latitude and longitude.
Latitude: Degrees North or South of the Equator.
Longitude: Degrees East or West of the Prime Meridian

7. The Equator
Defintion: an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
The equator is represented as 0° latitude.

8. Prime Meridian
The Earth’s zero degree of Longitude. By convention this line was adopted in 1884 as a line that runs the length of the earth through the town of Greenwich, England.

9. Using Latitude and Longitude
Latitude and Longitude lines are represented as a coordinate plane on a map.
The goal is to find the intersection of the line of latitude with the line of longitude.
K is located at 45 degrees North, 30 degrees East