✨Lines of latitude & Longitude✨

Question 1

What are lines of latitude and longitude?

Answer 1

Imaginary lines on maps used to pinpoint the position of a place on Earth.

Question 2

Lines of latitude run from ___ to ___.

Answer 2

West to east.

Question 3

Lines of latitude are ___ to the equator.

Answer 3

Parallel.

Question 4

Lines of latitude ___ in length.

Answer 4

Differ.

Question 5

The poles are at latitudes of ___ and ___.

Answer 5

90🌡N and 90🌡S.

Question 6

The equator divides the earth into the northern and southern ___.

Answer 6

Hemispheres.

Question 7

Lines of latitude are lines drawn ___ or ___ of the equator.

Answer 7

North or south.

Question 8

Lines of longitude are lines drawn ___ or ___ of the Prime Meridian.

Answer 8

East or west.

Question 9

Lines run from ___ to ___ and are called lines of longitude or meridians.

Answer 9

North to south.

Question 10

The Prime Meridian is at ___🌡.

Answer 10

0🌡.

Question 11

The 180🌡 line at the opposite side of the Earth to the Greenwich Meridian is called the ___.

Answer 11

International Date Line.

Question 12

Where is the Arctic Circle?

Answer 12

66.5🌡N.

Question 13

Where is the Tropic of Cancer.

Answer 13

23.5🌡N.

Question 14

Where is the Tropic of Capricorn?

Answer 14

23.5🌡S

Question 15

Where is the Antarctic Circle?

Answer 15

66.5🌡S

Question 16

We always write the co-ordinates of the ___ first.

Answer 16

Latitude.