Longitude and Latitude Flashcards
Equator
The latitude line at 0 degrees
Prime Meridian
The longitude line at zero degrees.
Tropic of Cancer
Is the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead.
Tropic of Capricorn
The southern longitude line of the tropics.
Latitude
The horizontal invisible line that goes East to the West, divides the NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
Longitude
The vertical invisible line that goes from North to South, divides the EASTERN AND WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Hemisphere
Half of the Earth.
Coordinates
(Latitude NORTH or SOUTH - Longitude EAST or West)
Degrees
How far away from the center it is (PRIME MERIDIAN OR EQUATOR).
What is 0 degrees Latitude
Equator
What is 0 degrees Latitude
Equator
Compass
A device that tells you the locate the direction that your traveling to NORTH, SOUTH, EAST & WEST (NEVER EAT SOGGY WAFFLES)
By how much degrees does the hemisphere divides
BY 30 DEGREES