Practice OC.2a Vocabulary

Match the following.

• vertical

• Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian; measured in degrees.

• latitude

• Distance north or south of the Equator; measured in degrees.

• ocean basin

• The deepest part of the ocean floor; made up of rolling hills and flat plains; defined by location and partially bordered by continents.

• longitude

• Running straight up and down.

• horizontal

• Going straight across from side to side.

Match the following.

• Tropic of Capricorn

• 23.5 degrees north latitude.

• equator

• 23.5 degrees south latitude.

• Tropic of Cancer

• 0 degrees latitude; an imaginary line drawn around the Earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.

• arctic circle

• 66.5 degrees south latitude.

• Antarctic circle

• 66.5 degrees north latitude.

Match the following

• international date line

• 90 degrees south latitude.

• north pole

• 180 degrees longitude; the line that marks where each new day begins.

• prime meridian

• 90 degrees north latitude.

• south pole

• 0 degrees longitude; meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.

Match the following.

• ocean basin

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• longitude

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• horizontal

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• vertical

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• latitude

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Match the following.

• Antarctic circle

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• arctic circle

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• Tropic of Capricorn

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• Tropic of Cancer

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• equator

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Match the following

• international date line

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• south pole

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• prime meridian

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• north pole

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