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Geography Essentials: Earth's Measurements and Coordinates

Learn about the Earth's radius, prime meridian, International Date Line, coordinate pairs, and cosine law of spheres. Independent work on pages 358-359.

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Geography Essentials: Earth's Measurements and Coordinates

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  1. Lesson 5.8 From Washington to Beijing

  2. Important things to know! • Radius of the Earth’s sphere is 3960 miles • Prime meridian – 0˚ longitude • International Date Line – 180˚ • In an ordered pair, (longitude, latitude) • Spherical Law of Cosines – cos c = cos a cos b + sin a sin b cos C

  3. Independent work Pages 358 – 359 10 - 23

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