Our school is located in which two hemispheres?
Northern and Eastern Hemispheres
The study of the earth
Geography
Longitude and Latitude lines are measured in ______.
Degrees
The invisible line at 0 degrees longitude is called the _____.
Prime Meridian
The invisible line at 0 degrees latitude is called the _____.
Equator
The climate zone that is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Tropical zone
A visual representation of an area or Earth.
A Map.
The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are what types of lines?
Latitude Lines
Longitude lines are also known as _____.
The equator breaks the Earth into what two hemispheres
Northern and Southern
The part of a map that shows you distances is...
The scale
Imaginary lines that run north to south
Lines of Longitude.
Lines of _____ measure how from the equator a place is located?
Latitude
The Prime Meridian separates the Earth into what two hemispheres?
Latitude lines are also known as _____.
Parallels
What is another name for a map legend?
A key
This is the line that separates the northern and southern hemisphere. It is at 0 degrees latitude...
The Equator
Location described by giving coordinates is _________.
Absolute location
Lines of longitude measure how far from the ______ a place is located.
Prime Meridian
Latitude lines measure distance ______ and ______ of the ______.
North, South, Equator.
Lines of Longitude end at the...
North and South Poles
My house is next to the hospital is an example of...
Relative location.
True or False, lines of latitude and longitude form a grid on Earth's surface.
True
Lines of Longitude measure ____ or ____ of the _________.
East, West, Prime Meridian
True or False: lines of latitude are the same length.
False, they are longer around the equator and shorter at the poles.