GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tangerine
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Note: assignment due wednesday: find city & alternate city for upcoming project. : divides the earth into (equal) northern & southern hemispheres. Magnetic north and south are not the same as the geographic north and south the earth spins around the axis of rotation (kind of like spinning the globe) The magnetic north and south shift around every 10 years geographic grid: latitude & longitude. Latitude (always given first): parallel line that uses equator as starting point; greater than 0 but less than 90. Longitude: not parallel lines (remember: takes the shape of a tangerine); lines are called meridians; greater than 0 less than 180 with the starting point at. Samalia (failed state: government gave up on them) 8 countries that sit on the prime meridian.
