Wednesday, June 3, 2009

16: Location of Sunrise

There are two types of location Sunrise can be described as, relative location and absolute location.
The first way you can describe Sunrise by location is using relative location. Relative location describes the position of a place in relation to another place. So Sunrise would have a lot of relative locations. For example, Sunrise is approximately 30 miles from Miami. Another is example is that Sunrise is about 250 miles from St. Petersburg. And another example would be Sunrise is about 300 miles from Key West. Even though Sunrise has many more relative locations these are just a few.
The second way you can describe Sunrise by location is using absolute location. Absolute location defines an exact spot on Earth. If you’re defining a house you could use an address and if you are defining a city or a state you could use longitude and latitude. Since Sunrise is a city, defining its absolute location would be by using longitude and latitude. Sunrise’s longitude and latitude is 26.15170 N, 80.29791 W.
These are the two ways Sunrise can be defined by one of the five themes of geography, location.

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