Unit- 3.1 Using maps and globes session 1

It is defined as zero degree latitude.

• Prime Meridian

• Meridian

• Equator

An equator is an imaginary line that divides the earth into two equal halves such as northern and southern hemispheres.

• True

• False

_______________ is an imaginary line that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.

• Parallel

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

The imaginary lines of equator and Prime Meridian which divides the earth into four halves known as ______________.

• half sphere

• hemispheres

• segment

__________________are also called as meridians.

• Latitudes

• Longitudes

• Parallels

Latitudes are ______________to each other so they never meet.

• parallel

• cross

• opposite

_____________________________is at 66.5 degree south.

• Tropic of Cancer

• Antarctic Circle

• Tropic of Capricorn