Vocabulary Terms
Set of horizontal and vertical lines on a map
What is a grid?
Lines of Latitude run in this direction
What is east to west?
The location where the distances between longitude lines are greatest?
What is at the equator?
Cities on the same line of longitude have the same solar _________.
What is time?
Spinning of the earth
What is rotation?
Lines of latitude can also be called this
What are parallels?
Lines of Longitude are also called this
What are meridians?
The locations on earth where longitude lines intersect.
What are the North Pole and South Pole?
If it is noon at Greenwich, England, the time at a city located at 30 degrees east
What is 2 PM?
Line of zero degrees longitude, also called the starting meridian?
What is the Prime Meridian?
These 2 lines are located at 23.5 Degrees N & S
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
The two important lines of longitude are?
What is the prime meridian and the international date line?
With respect to the globe or world maps, why is Greenwich England so well known/
What is because it is where GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is measured from.
If it is 3 PM at a city at 15 degrees west longitude, the time at GMT
What is 4 PM?
Unit for measuring angles in a circle or square
What are degrees?
This line of latitude separates the earth into two hemispheres
What is the equator?
Longitude coordinates run from these degrees.
What is 0 to 180 degrees E to 0 to 180 Degrees W?
Meridians appear different on the Map on our "Views of Earth Lab' then they appear on the Globe, because____________
What is Meridians appear as parallel lines on our "Views of Earth Lab' Map and they intersect at the North and South Poles on the globe?
The reason the International Date Line is a zagged line.
What is to try to keep cities, provinces in the same time zone?
Imaginary line through the earth that connects the North and South Poles
What is the earth's axis/
Lines of latitude are measured in degrees ranging from what to what?
What is 90 degrees N to 90 degrees S?
The prime meridian passes through this city
What is Greenwich, England?
The kind of Map on page 1 of our 'Views of Earth' Lab Packet.
What was a Mercator Projection?
Name the 4 Time Zones in the Continental United States.
What are the Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?