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Location Place Human/Environment Interaction Movement Region The study of the earth and the ways people live and work on it. Where is it? Absolute location- precise point, where a latitude and longitude line cross. Grid System – a pattern in which the lines of longitude and latitude cross one another Hemisphere Relative location- it’s location in relation to other places Latitude: Imaginary lines, also known as parallels that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator. They measure the distance north and south of the Equator in degrees Longitude: Imaginary lines also known as meridians that m