The 5 themes of Geography Florence‚ Italy Location Absolute Location: Latitude: 43° 46’ 0" N Longitude: 11° 15’ 0" E Relative Location: The major countries around it are France‚ Switzerland‚ Austria‚ & Slovenia as direct neighbors sharing a land border. Place Human: Some human features such as The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the main church of Florence‚ Italy. The Palazzo Medici is a Renaissance palace. David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created by
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The tropical rainforest is a warm biome and ecosystem. An important tropical rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest. The latitude and longitude of the Amazon rainforest is 3.4653° S‚ 62.2159° W. The Amazon rainforest is very hot and moist. The average temperature of the tropical rainforest is 80°F. The average precipitation is 60 to 160 inches that is distributed evenly throughout the year. The tropical rainforest is suitable to many plant and animal life. It contains the most biodiversity
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1 CHAPTER 3 PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY 3.1 Introduction It is assumed in this chapter that readers are familiar with the usual elementary formulas encountered in introductory trigonometry. We start the chapter with a brief review of the solution of a plane triangle. While most of this will be familiar to readers‚ it is suggested that it be not skipped over entirely‚ because the examples in it contain some cautionary notes concerning hidden pitfalls. This is followed by a quick review of spherical
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New Jersey I. Government During the Revolutionary War in 1776‚ the first constitution of the state of New Jersey was written to create a government framework for the state. The constitution has been rewritten twice to address issues that arose with the original and subsequent versions. In the mid-1800s‚ New Jersey citizens wanted a more democratic form of state government so the 1844 constitution was drafted‚ providing for the separation of powers among the legislative‚ judicial‚ and executive
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It takes a lot more than a few men and a bundle of wood built into a boat to travel around the entire world. Many explorers of this time period risked their lives to discover the land walked by many people today. The discoveries and gadgets made by these people have contributed positively to the voyages across the ocean today. Not only have they made it easy‚ they have also made it different in so many ways! The time period lasting between the 1500’s and the 1700’s‚ also known as the age of exploration
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SECTION II TOURISM RESOURCES | Tanay lies at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountain with bearings 14o 30’ latitude and 121o 17’ longitude. it is | |bounded on the north by the towns of Antipolo‚ Baras‚ Teresa and Montalban; on the east by Quezon Province; on the south by Pililla and the| |Province of Laguna; and on the west by Laguna de Bay. Tanay is divided into two areas: the urban and ruralbarangays. The largest urban | |barangay is Plaza Aldea (2‚530 ha.)
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International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth‚ that runs from the north to the south pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean‚ roughly following the 180° longitude but it deviates to pass around some territories and island groups. The International Date line is on the opposite side of the Earth to the Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian helps to define Universal Time and is the meridian from which all other
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bordered on the north and northeast by China; on the east and southeast by Laos and Thailand; on the south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal; and on the west by Bangladesh and India. It is located between latitudes 09°32’N and 28°31’N and longitudes 92°10’E and 101°11’E. The country covers an area of 677‚000 square kilometers (261‚228 square miles) ranging 936 kilometers (581 miles) from east to west and 2‚051 kilometers (1‚275 miles) from north to south. Geography The total area of Myanmar
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Introduction Bahrain is located on the South shores of Arabian Gulf . It lays in between latitudes 25 and 26 North and longitude 50 and 51East . The country is 22km off the Eastern Coast of Saudi Arabia and slightly further from the Western coast of the Qatar Peninsula . The country is linked with Saudi Arabia through the King Fahad causeway which was opened in November 1986 . The state comprises of 36 islands with a area of 665 square kilometers . Manama is the capital city . The country
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Global Positioning System (GPS): The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather‚ anywhere on or near the Earth‚ where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. It is maintained by the United States government and is freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver. The GPS program provides critical capabilities to military‚ civil and commercial users around the world. In
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