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What is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
Equator
What is the reference line from which latitude is considered?
Equator
What is measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds?
Both longitude and latitude
What is the basis for the world's standard time zone system?
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What is the first convention developed for?
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What is the direction of the sun during a European winter?
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What is the measurement of location from east or west of the prime meridian at Greenwich?
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What is the number of degrees of latitude at the North Pole and South Pole?
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What is the distance per degree of longitude at the Equator?
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What is the purpose of the combination of meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude?
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