Latitude & Longitudes

What are latitude and longitude lines?

• imaginary lines that divide the Earth

• visible lines that divide the Earth

• long and short lines that divide the Earth

True or False? The equator is the main line of longitude

• True

• False

This is the main line of longitude.

• equator

• northern hemisphere

• prime meridian

_______________ lines run from east to west. They measure distances north and south of the equator.

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Primary

Which line cuts the world into north and south latitude?

• equator

• prime meridian

• longitude

This marks the location of the equator on Earth.

• 90 degrees

• 20 degrees

• 0 degrees

Longitude lines run from __________ to ___________, pole to pole.

• east, west

• north, south

True or False? The prime meridian cuts the world into west and east longitudes.

• True

• False

The intersection of the Earth's latitude and longitude lines form a _________.

• grid

• map

• hemisphere

1. Longitudes are lines which indicate the location of places which lie either to the _____________ or to the _____________ of the Prime Meridian.

• east, west

• north, west

• north, south

• west, south