Longitude and Latitude

Question 1

co-ordinate

Answer 1

each of a group of numbers used to indicate the position
of a point, line or plane

Question 2

parallel

Answer 2

two or more lines that are parallel to each other are the same
distance apart at every point

Question 3

determine

Answer 3

to discover the facts about something; to calculate
something exactly

Question 4

circumnavigate

Answer 4

sail or travel all the way around
something e.g. the world

Question 5

constitutes

Answer 5

be (a part) of a whole

Question 6

straddle

Answer 6

extend across both sides of

Question 7

latitude

Answer 7

regions with reference to their temperature and distance
from the equator

Question 8

longitude

Answer 8

the distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich meridian,
measured in degrees

Question 9

horizontal

Answer 9

flat and level; going across and parallel to the ground rather
than going up and down

Question 10

vertical

Answer 10

going straight up or down from a level surface or from
top to bottom in a picture

Question 11

meridian

Answer 11

one of the lines that is drawn from the North Pole to the South
Pole on a map of the world

Question 12

straddle

Answer 12

extend across both sides of

Question 13

Prefix / Suffix / Root:

para

Answer 13

beside, near

Examples: parallel, parameter, parachute

Question 14

Prefix / Suffix / Root:

circ(um)

Answer 14

around, round

Examples: circle, circumference, circus, circuit

Question 15

Prefix / Suffix / Root:

vert

Answer 15

turn

Examples: covert, invert, vertical

Question 16

Prefix / Suffix / Root:

lat

Answer 16

broad, wide

Examples: latitude, lateral, dilate

Question 17

Idiom:

put it on the map

Answer 17

to make something widely known and acknowledged

Question 18

intersect

Answer 18

divide (something) by passing or lying across it.

Question 19

solar

Answer 19

relating to or determined by the sun

Question 20

lunar

Answer 20

relating to or determined by the moon

Question 21

anticlockwise

Answer 21

in the opposite direction to the way the hands of a clock move round

Question 22

thermometer

Answer 22

an instrument for measuring and indicating temperature

Question 23

clockwise

Answer 23

the direction the hands of a clock move round

Question 24

hemisphere

Answer 24

two equal halves of the Earth

Any circle drawn around Earth divides it into two equal halves called hemispheres. There are generally considered to be four hemispheres: northern, southern, eastern, and western. The Equator, or line of 0 degrees latitude, divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.