The prime meridian is the the line of longitude that crosses 1/2 of the Earth.
What is the prime meridian?
100
The equator is a line of latitude that crosses through the whole Earth.
What is the equator?
100
The lines of latitude are the imaginary lines that help scientists know North and South.
What are the lines of latitude?
100
The lines of longitude are the imaginary lines that help scientists know East and West.
What are the lines of longitude?
100
The International Date Line is the line that splits the Earth into time zones.
What is the International Date Line?
200
The prime meridian is on the right side of the Earth.
Where is the prime meridian?
200
The equator is in Quito, Ecuador.
Where is the equator?
200
Some lines of latitude are The Arctic Circle, the equator, The Antarctic Circle, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Tropic of Capricorn.
What are some of the lines of latitude?
200
The only line of longitude is the Prime Meridian.
What is the only line of longitude?
200
The International Date Line starts in the middle of The Arctic Circle and ends in The Antarctic Circle.
Where does International Date Line start and end?
300
The prime meridian starts at Greenwich, England.
Where does the prime meridian start?
300
The equator starts and ends in Ecuador.
Where does the equator start and end?
300
Yes or No/True or False
(Directions: If you think No, choose No and False.)
Is there more than 7 lines of latitude? (True or False and Yes or No question) (Directions above)
300
A. 360 degrees
B. 350 degrees
C. 340 degrees
How long is 1 line of longitude?
300
You will arrive on Tuesday.
If you are in Juneau, Alaska on Monday, and you fly to Tokyo, Japan, what day will you arrive on?
400
The prime meridian is a line of longitude because it goes up and down
Why is the prime meridian a line of longitude?
400
The equator is a line of latitude because it goes around the Earth.
Why is the equator a line of latitude?
400
A. 0 degrees
B. 5 degrees
C. 2 degrees
D. 3 degrees
How many degrees is the equator? (This is because the equator is a line of latitude.) (A, B, C, and D question)
400
A. 360 degrees
B. 530 degrees
C. 809 degrees
How many degrees is 1 line of longitude?
400
It will be Tuesday.
If you are in Australia on Monday and you fly to Tahiti, what day will it be?
500
The prime meridian is important to scientists because the prime meridian marks 0 degrees and without the prime meridian other lines of longitude can't be measured with degrees.
Why is the prime meridian so important to scientists?
500
The equator is so important to scientists because the position of the moon, relative of the Earth, causes lunar tide.
Why is the equator so important to scientists?
500
Lines of latitude are important on the globe because they point out precisely where you want to go.
Why are the lines of latitude important on the globe?
500
A. 5,040 degrees
B. 8,240 degrees
C. 6,490 degrees
If you counted 14 lines of longitude, how many degrees would it be?
500
It will be Saturday.
If you are in Sidney on Saturday and you fly from Los Angeles, California to Tokyo, what day will it be?