Vocabulary
This word means half of the Earth.
What is "hemi"?
We live in these two hemispheres.
What are Northern and Western hemispheres?
Lines of latitude run in this direction.
What is East to West?
Lines of longitude run in this direction.
What is North and South?
This is the name of the largest continent.
What is Asia?
This term means "circle"?
What is "sphere"
This line separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Lines of latitude are also called this.
What are parallels?
Lines of longitude are also called this.
What are meridians?
This is the name of the smallest continent.
What is Australia?
The northernmost latitude on Earth.
What is the North Pole?
Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western.
What are the names of the four hemispheres?
This line of latitude separates the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Name one important line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
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What is the International Date Line?
Canada is located on this continent.
What is North America?
The Southern most latitude on Earth.
What is the South Pole?
The Eastern and Western Hemispheres are separated by this.
What is the Prime Meridian?
What are degrees?
These are what lines of longitude are measured in.
What is degrees?
An ocean that appears twice on a world map.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
North, South, East and West.
What are cardinal directions?
A major difference between Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What are opposite seasons?
23.5 degrees North latitude
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The highest degree of longitude where the date changes.
What is the International Date Line?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?