1. What is absolute location?

2. “Absolute location is a point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude.”

3. What is longitude?

4. “Longitude is the numbering system that enumerates meridians, arcs that are drawn between the north and south pole.”

5. Longitude
0° Longitude runs through Greenwich, England and is known as the Prime Meridian

6. What is latitude?

7. “Latitude is the numbering system that enumerates parallels, circles drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.”

8. Latitude 0° Latitude is the equator.
90° north latitude is the north pole.
90° south latitude is the south pole.

9. Map Skills
Time Zones

10. Longitude Lines run east and west.

11. Time Zones run in the same direction as longitude lines.
Each color is a different Time Zone

12. Vocabulary
A time zone is a region of the earth that has the same time. There are 24 time zones.

13. Time Zones
The times zones are generally divided by 15⁰ longitude. The time zones are separated by blue lines on this map.

14. Vocabulary
The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth where the date changes as one travels east or west across it.

15. There are six time zones in the United States of America.

16. The United States Time Zones
Louisiana is located in the Central Time Zone.
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17. The United States Time Zones
What time zone is South Florida located?
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18. The United States Time Zones
What time zone is California located?
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19. The United States Time Zones
Name the ocean closest to the Eastern Time Zone.
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Atlantic
Ocean

20. The United States Time Zones
Each neighboring time zone differs by one hour. What time is it in the Pacific Time Zone?
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21. The United States Time Zones
If it is 10:00 in the Eastern Time Zone what time would it be in the Mountain Time Zone?
8:00
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22. The United States Time Zones
If it is 10:00 in the Pacific Time Zone what time would it be in the Eastern Time Zone?
1:00
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