Longitude & Latitude

What is today's learning target?

• I can determine where the north and south pole's are.
• I can relatively identify where I live on earth.
• I can identify absolute location using latitude and longitude.
• I can cite textual evidence.

Lines of longitude run north and south (up and down).

• True
• False

Which of the following does NOT divide the earth into hemispheres?

• Prime Meridian
• Tropic of Cancer
• Equator

• Relative Location
• Absolute Location
• Where Santa Lives
• Prime Location

This Shows...

• Absolute Location
• Tropic Location
• Prime Location
• Relative Location

_______________: a set of imaginary  lines that run east and west (side to side) on a map or globe. These lines are all parallel- meaning they never meet.  

• Longitude
• Capritude
• Prime Meridian
• Latitude

A _______________ is exactly half of the earth.

• Equator
• Hemisphere
• Tropic of Cancer
• Arctic Circle

__________ ____________: This latitude line is 66.5 degrees north of the equator. Here, the sun never sets in the summer!

• Antarctic Circle
• Prime Meridian Oval
• Arctic Circle
• Tropic Circle

______________ __________: This latitude line is 66.5 degrees south of the equator. Here, the sun never sets in the summer!

• Antarctic Circle
• Arctic Circle
• Prime Meridian
• Longitude

The Tropic of ___________: This latitude line is 23.5 degrees north of the equator.

• Cancer
• Capricorn
• Arctic
• North Longitude