science Longitude and Latitude
The International Date Line is ___ degrees (longitude)
180
The biggest number or highest degrees of longitude is ____ degrees.
180
How many degrees is our planet tipped on its axis?
23.5
The Tropic of Cancer is __ degrees (latitude)
23.5
The Tropic of Capricorn is __ degrees (latitude)
23.5
What is the latitude and longitude, in the order, of New Orleans?
30 degrees and 90 degrees
The Antarctic Circle is ___ degrees (latitude)
66.5
The Arctic Circle is ___ degrees (latitude)
66.5
The North Pole is ___ degrees (latitude)
90
The South Pole is ___ degrees (latitude)
90
The biggest number or highest degrees of latitude is ____ degrees.
90
Name a continent that contains both east and west longitude.
Antartica
What famous did the first Prime Meridian run through?
Paris
Name a continent that contain both north and south latitude.
South America
The Prime Meridian is also called the Greenwich Meridian. Why?
Because it runs through Grenich
We call latitude lines ______.
parallells
The line called the _________ is located at zero degrees longitude.
prime meridain
We call longitude lines ______ or great circle.
meridians
In the United States, all located are _____ of the equator and _____ of the prime meridian.
north and west
The greatest degrees of latitude are located at these two spots...?
north pole and south pole
The Equator is__ degrees (latitude)
0
The Prime Meridian is __ degrees (longitude)
0
The line called the _________ is located at zero degrees latitude.
equator
The greatest degrees of longitude are located at the...?
international dateline
Imaginary lines that measure of distances north and south of the equator are lines of...?
latitude
Imaginary lines that run horizontally, east-west, around the globe are lines of ...?
latitude
Imaginary lines that measure distances east and west of the prime meridian are lines of...?
longitude
Imaginary lines that run veritally, north-south, or actually all the way around, from bottom to top and back up again on the other side, are lines of...?
longitude
Which lines help us delineate time zones?
longitude
