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What does it mean to use cardinal and intermediate directions when describing its location?
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Is Intermediate Directions more important than cardinal directions?
Cardinal directions are north, south, east, and west. Intermediate directions are northwest/northeast, or southwest/southeast.
How do geographers determine the location place?
The use cardinal and intermediate directions, and longitude and latitude.
Why is left and right not as useful as the cardinal directions when describing location?
Left and right describe direction in terms of the observer. In contrast, the cardinal directions are independent of the observer's position.
What way of describing location is being used when a geographer explains that a river is 250 miles north of San Antonio?
Cardinal directions or which route to take.as the crow flies or straight away
Use the cardinal directions to describe the location of thed state of Ohio'?
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To identify location you need to know what?
...where you are, your relation to the cardinal directions, and which way is north on your "map".
Which way of describing location is Used when a geographer explain is that a river is miles north of Antonio?
Cardinal direction
Which way of describing location is being used when a geographer explains that a river is 250miles of san Antonio?
Cardinal direction
Use the cardinal directions to describe the location of the state of Ohio in the relations to its surroundings states and lake Erie?
North
Use the cardinal directions to describe the location of the state of Ohio in relation to its surroundings states and lake Erie?
North
What are cardinal directions to describe the location of the state of Kentucky in relation to its surrounding states?
Right of California, South of washington
What is a compass rose?
A compass rose shows cardinal directions like (N, S, E, and W) and it shows intermediate directions like (NE, NW, SE and SW).Another example of a compass rose is that it is a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.
