How would you explaing these simply? i've looked in the atlas, but i don't know the first thing about it. the four quadrants are northwest, northeast, southern, and central africa.

Okay think about as the x and y axis on a graph. In the graph there are 4 quadrants also.Think the 1 quadrant on the graph is the northeast. Think the 2 quadrant on the graph is the northeast. Then think the 3 quadrant on the graph is central America and finally the 4 quadrant on the graph is southern. But remember the quadrants on a graph make a back words c.