Question

What is meant by absolute location?
A) The position of a place in relation to other well-known landmarks.
B) A location is described by its latitude and longitude on the earth.
C) The position of a place in relations to relative distance from a well-known landmark.
D) None of the above.

Answer 1

Hint: Absolute location describes the fixed location or the arrangement or order of the place or the exact location. The correct way to understand the meaning of absolute location is by coordinates.

Complete answer:
Option A) The position of a place in relation to another well-known landmark – this option describes the relative location. As relative location refers to the place’s position with respect to another well-known landmark. Thus, this is not an absolute location and this option is an incorrect answer.

Option B) A location is described by its latitude and longitude on the earth – this option best describes the absolute location. The absolute location is based on the coordinates of the Earth and these coordinates are the longitude and latitude and gives the exact position on the earth. Thus, this option is the correct answer.

Option C) The position of a place in relations to relative distance from a well-known landmark – this option also describes the relative location only. So, we will not take this option as the right choice. Hence, this option is also an incorrect answer.

Option D) None of the above – this is an invalid option, as the correct answer lies in option B.
Thus the meaning of absolute location is a location is described by its latitude and longitude on the earth.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: There are two types of locations: Relative and absolute location: Absolute location is basically based on the longitude and latitude of a place; however, these are the absolute places which does not change like the address of any company or a person’s house. Whereas, relative location is based on the changing direction as described by the person i.e., it can be changed and they are not fixed reference.

Longitude – position of place on Earth is from East to west – measure in degrees.
Latitude – position of place on Earth is from north to south – measured in degrees.