Day 2 Globes and Maps

What are the coordinates of the Prime Meridian?

• 30 degrees longitudinal and 90 degrees latitudinal

• 0 degrees longitudinal and at any latitudinal coordinate

• 90 degrees longitudinal and 0 degrees latitudinal

• 80 degrees longitudinal and at any latitudinal coordinate

What are coordinates?

• A place where longitude and latitude intersect.

• The square created by lines of longitude and latitude.

What is longitude?

• Imaginary lines on a globe that show the distance from the equator.

• Imaginary lines that travel diagonally on a globe.

• Imaginary lines on a globe that shows the distance from the Prime Meridian.

What are the coordinates for the Major Lines of latitude.

The equator is at ___________ degrees latitude.

What are the coordinates for the Major Lines of latitude.

The Tropic of Cancer is at ____________ degrees latitude.

What are the coordinates for the Major Lines of latitude.

The Tropic of Capricorn is at _________ degrees latitude.

What are the coordinates for the Major Lines of latitude.

The Arctic Circle is at _____________ degrees latitude.

What are the coordinates for the Major Lines of latitude.

The Antarctic Circle is at ______________ degrees latitude.

What is latitude?

• Imaginary lines on a globe that shows the distance from the Prime Meridian.

• Imaginary lines on a globe that show the distance from the equator.

• Imaginary lines that travel diagonally on a globe.

Do you feel comfortable with the information you learned today?

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