Friday, February 8, 2008

Mapping Paragraph

The world is divided in lots of lines called latitude and longitude. Latitude goes sideways and longitude goes up and down. As an example, the equator is 0 degrees latitude and the prime meridian is 0 degrees longitude. Another part of mapping is the hemisphere. Hemisphere is made up of to words, hemi and sphere. Hemi means half and and sphere is a 3D circle. By using the equator and prime meridian, we divide the world into four quaters, north, south, east, and west. Maps are made to scale each in on map represents one mile on earth.

By Jonah

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