Latitude
This is the latitude of the Equator
What is zero degrees?
This line of longitude lies at 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
There are these many time zones in the Continental United States.
What is Four?
This was Eratosthenes ' job
What was the Librarian of Alexandria?
This is the shape of the Earth (basically)
What is spherical?
This is a synonym for latitude
What is parallel?
This is a synonym for lines of longitude...
What is the Prime Meridian?
There are these many time zones throughout the World.
What is 24?
He read a book about a well on the summer solstice that was special because...
What is it reflected light back, it had no shadow
This means that the poles are flattened.
What is oblate?
This line of latitude lies at approximately 23 degrees North
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
What large European City is bisected by the Prime Meridian?
What is London?
If the Super Bowl is in Florida (Eastern Time) at 6:00pm, this would be the time to watch it in Denver.
What is 4:00 pm?
What is the experiment conducted by Erasthothenes?
What is placed a stick in the ground to measure it's shadow
This makes the area at the Equator "chubby"
What is spinning?
This area lies between 23 degrees North and 23 degrees South
What are the tropics?
This line of longitude lies at 180 degrees
What is the International Dateline?
Also known as G.M.T.
What is Greenwich Mean Time?
The angle of the shadow in Alexandria
What was 7.2 degrees?
This is not as far away from the center of the Earth as Mount Chimbarazo in Ecuador
What is Mt Everest?
He lives at 90 degrees North
Who is Santa Claus?
All lines of Longitude touch in these places
What are the poles?
This nation, although very large in area, has only one time zone.
What is China?
This is the reason that he divided 7.2 into 360.
What is, because there are 360 degrees in a sphere.
This is a longer radius (polar or equitorial?)
What is equitorial?