Lesson 1: Globes and Hemispheres

What is your First and Last name?

1. What divides a globe into Northern and Southern hemispheres?

2. What divides a globe into Eastern and Western hemispheres?

a

prime meridian

Tropic of Capicorn

Tropic of Cancer

equator

3. Name two continents through which the equator passes.

a

b

South America

Africa

4. The prime meridian passes through which continents shown?

5. The Indian Ocean is entirely in which hemisphere?

6. Which ocean is entirely in the Northern Hemisphere?

7. What continent is not shown on either of these globes?

8. Which two labeled imaginary lines meet at the North Pole?

9. Which continents are entirely in the Northern Hemisphere?