North, East, South, West
Cardinal Directions
Lines that go from side to side.
Latitude
Lines that go up and down
Longitude
Half of the Earth
Hemisphere
When you have numbers for latitude and longitude what does it mark.
Exact location
Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest
Intermediate directions
Latitude decides what?
Temperature
What does longitude decide?
Time
Lines that goes north to west and go horizontally.
Latitude
The word hemi means
half
pictures used to mark areas on a map
key
What are the two tropics?
Cancer and Capicorn
is an imaginary line that divide the earth in Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Prime Meridain
Lines that go from east to west and go vertically.
Longitude
How many time zones does the earth have?
24
The distance on a map from one place to another
Scale
is a imaginary line that divides the Earth into north and south hemispheres
Equator
Six or 4 depends on explanation
If you cut the world in half by the equator which two hemispheres would you have?
Northern and Southern
Why is the equator so hot?
every map has this problem where land masses are bigger or warped
Distortion
Equator
The prime meridian goes through what?
Greenwich England
If you cut the world by the prime meridian what two hemispheres you would have.
Eastern and Western
What are the coldest parts of the world called.
The artics, The North and South pole