explain the terms. a) peninsula b) standard time c) hemisphere
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Peninsula-A body of land surrounded by water on three sides is called a peninsula. The word comes from the Latin paene insula, meaning “almost an island.” In the United States Florida is the most obvious peninsula.
Standard time-Standard time is putting all clocks in a time zone to the same time. Standard time can also be used to mean the time without daylight saving time. Standard time happens from autumn to early spring.
Hemisphere-A hemisphere is half of a sphere, or ball. People use the word to describe one half of Earth. Geographers, or people who study Earth, have divided the planet into two sets of two hemispheres. These are the Northern and Southern hemispheres and the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
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- A peninsula (Latin: paeninsula from paene "almost" and insula "island") is a landform surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends. ... In English, the plural versions of peninsula are peninsulas and, less commonly, peninsulae.
- Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical area or region to a single time standard, rather than using solar time or a locally chosen meridian to establish a local mean time standard.
- noun. (often initial capital letter) half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided. Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere. a map or projection representing one of these halves.