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Vocabulary: our planet

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1. We consider our planet Earth as a slightly (

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2. It makes a complete (

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)   [r...] in twenty four hours...

3. around an (

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)   [a...] the ends of which are the North pole and the South pole.

4. It turns on itself counter (

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)   [cl...] while describing an elliptical orbit around the sun.

5. The four (

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6. The Earth is divided into circles passing through the poles : the (

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)   [me...] of longitude.

7. The prime meridian passes through (

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8. The imaginary great circle perpendicular to the line of poles and equidistant from them is called the (

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)   [E...]. It's latitude 0°.

9. The parallel circles from Equateur are called (

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10. The Equator divides our planet into two (

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11. Latitude and longitude are the (

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