Latitude And Longitude

Question 1

What does imaginary mean?

Answer 1

Does not really exist.

Question 2

What is a line of latitude?

Answer 2

Lines on a globe or map that run from east to west.

Question 3

What is a longitude line?

Answer 3

Lines on a globe that run from north to south.

Question 4

What are longitude and latitude lines?

Answer 4

Lines of latitude and longitude are imaginary lines that people draw on maps and globes. They are not real lines on the land.

Question 5

What does the equator do?

Answer 5

The equator divides the world into two equal halves.

Question 6

What are the two halves called that equator divides the earth into?

Answer 6

They are called hemispheres.

Question 7

The hemispheres divide the world in which two hemispheres?

Answer 7

Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Question 8

What is the Greenwich meridian?

Answer 8

The Greenwich meridian is a line of longitude.

Question 9

The Greenwich Meridian passes through what?

Answer 9

It passes through a place called Greenwich in England.

Question 10

What does the Greenwich Meridian do?

Answer 10

It divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres.

Question 11

What is every place on the globe in?

Answer 11

The northern or Southern Hemisphere and the the eastern and Western Hemisphere.

Question 12

What do latitude and longitude lines divided a globe into?

Answer 12

They divide the globe into a grid pattern.

Question 13

What does each line have?

Answer 13

Each line has a number in degrees.

Question 14

What is the 0 degree line latitude?

Answer 14

The equator.

Question 15

What Is the 0 degree line of longitude?

Answer 15

The Greenwich Meridian.

Question 16

How many degrees of longitude are there east and west of the Greenwich Meridian?

Answer 16

There are 180 degrees of longitude east and west of the Greenwich Meridian.

Question 17

How many degrees of latitude are north and south of the poles?

Answer 17

There are 90 degrees of latitude north and south of the poles.

Question 18

How many longitude degrees of longitude are there?

Answer 18

There are 360 degrees of longitude.

Question 19

How many lines of latitude are there?

Answer 19

There are 180 degrees of latitude.

Question 20

Why do we use a degree? (and example)

Answer 20

We use a degree to describe the position of a place. For example we can say Cairo is 30 degrees north and is 31 degrees east. 30 north 31 east

Question 21

What do we always do when writing out co ordinates? (and example)

Answer 21

We always give the degrees latitude first and then the degrees longitude. Eg. we write 40 degrees Ń (latitude), 150 E (longitude). We call these co-ordinates.

Question 22

What is a hemisphere?

Answer 22

One half of the earth.