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1 GEOGRAPHY

LESSON 1

6 Fill in the blanks using the following words.

globe absolute Equator coordinates east
England Pangaea grid Northern

1. A person would use a to know in which hemisphere a country is.
2. Geography requires a network to identify

locations.
3. The numbers of the longitudes and latitudes are called .

4. The is the 0-degree line that separates the Earth into Northern
and Southern Hemispheres.

5. Egypt is located in the Hemisphere.
6. is located in the northwestern part of Europe.

7. Earth was comprised of a supercontinent called .

7 Imagine that you have a friend who lives abroad and is planning to visit
Egypt. How would you describe Egypt’s location to him or her?

8 What would have happened if geographers had not created geographic grids?

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