Hemispheres
We live in these hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
Lines of Latitude run in this direction
What is east to west
identifying a place by using the address
What is absolute location?
Canada is located on this continent
What is North America?
Europe is located in these hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.
Lines of latitude are also called this
What is parallels
identifying a place by naming other places close to it
What is relative location?
Brazil is located on this continent
What is South America?
Lines of Latitude separate these hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
The equator runs through these continents.
What is South America, Africa, and Asia?
This is the name for 0° longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
for example: the apartments that are next to Pagliacci Pizza on Ballinger
What is relative location?
The east coast of South Africa borders this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is located in these hemispheres.
What is all four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western?
for example: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500
What is absolute location?
The ocean at the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The continent that is at the South Pole.
Lines of latitude are measured in degrees ranging from
What is 90 degrees N to 90 degrees S?
The prime meridian passes through this country.
What is England?
for example: I live two blocks from the Shoreline Library.
What is relative location?
The ocean that is west of where we live.
What is the Pacific Ocean?