Latitude / Longitude 2023 mini review

Latitude

100

Lines of Latitude run in this direction

What is parallel to the equator?

200

Lines of latitude are also called this

What is parallels

300

Memory Trick!
You can remember "lattitude" by thinking of this other word:

What is "ladder"?

400

This line of latitude separates the earth into northern and southern hemispheres

What is the equator?

500

Lines of latitude are measured in degrees ranging from

What is 90°N to 90°S?

Longitude

100

Lines of Longitude run in this direction

What is North to South, from the North Pole to the South Pole.

200

Lines of Longitude are also called this

What are meridians?

300

This is the 0° line of longitude.

What is the prime meridian?

400

Longitude coordinates run from these degrees.

What is 180 degrees E to 180 Degrees W

500

The prime meridian passes through this city

What is Greenwich England

You need a map!Locate the Location

100

15⁰ degrees N  15⁰ degrees E

Africa 

200

0⁰,  60⁰  W

South America

300

30⁰ S,   135⁰ E

Australia

400

0⁰  75⁰ E  

Indian Ocean 

500

75⁰  N ,   45⁰ W

Greenland

Vocabulary

100

A term that means never touching.

What is parallel? 

200

This term means an exact location on earth.

What is absolute location?

300

(39°S, 69° W) is an example of this, but 39S and 69W is not.

What are coordinates?

400

Intersecting lines on a globe can be called latitude and longitude, or this mathematical term.

What is a grid?

500

"My house is around the corner from McDonald's" is an example of this type of location.

What is relative location?