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Warm Up answer on page 6 1.What is Latitude? 2.What is Longitude? 3.What are they used for?

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Warm Up answer on page 6

1. What is Latitude?2. What is Longitude?3. What are they used for?

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LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE Video 1

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Relative Location and Absolute Location

Relative Location of a city or destination on the planet is its relationship to another place or nearby landmarks.

As an example, our school is located in in the Gulf of Mexico, about 48 miles southeast of Houston. That's our relative location.

Absolute Location is the definitive location of a place using a recognized coordinate system. In terms of latitude and longitude, our office in Galveston, Texas, is 29°16' North, 94°49' West, marked with the red dot on the map above