Grids and Time zones (ways of describing where things are)

In class today, we continued working with maps and focused more on the longitude latitude part of them. Geography is the study of where things are found on the Earth's surface and the reason for there locations. Two important questions about this were: Where are people and activities found on Earth? and Why are they found there. The definition of a map is basically a two dimensional or flat-scale model of the Earth's surface (or a portion of it). Maps are made by cartographers. Cartography is the art and science of mapmaking. Maps serve two purposes. As a reference tool to identify an objects absolute and relative location , or it can be used as a communications tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features. Absolute location as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude (north or south of the equator) and longitude (east or west Prime Meridian). Relative location is the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position other places. Latitude is measured by imaginary lines running parallel to the equator.