Some Facts About Planet Earth

Question 1

What are round maps of the world called?

Answer 1

Globes

Question 2

What is the land area of the world made up of?

Answer 2

Seven blocks of land and these are the continents.

Question 3

What is the world divided into?

Answer 3

Halves called hemispheres.

Question 4

Name the hemispheres?

Answer 4

Northern,Eastern,Southern and Western.

Question 5

What are lines of latitude and longitude?

Answer 5

Imaginary lines drawn on maps and globes.

Question 6

What does each line of latitude or longitude have?

Answer 6

A number

Question 7

How are lines of latitude shown?

Answer 7

Are shown in degrees east to west

Question 8

How are lines of longitude shown?

Answer 8

In degrees north to south

Question 9

What is the most important line of latitude?

Answer 9

The equator

Question 10

What does the equator do?

Answer 10

It divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Question 11

What is the distance around the earth at the equator?

Answer 11

40 075 km

Question 12

Lines of latitude go from____ at the _____ to ______ at the _____ and ______ ________.

Answer 12

0 degrees
Equator 
90 degrees 
North
South 
Poles

Question 13

What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

Answer 13

Is the line of latitude that is at 23.5 degrees south of the equator.

Question 14

What is the Tropic of Cancer?

Answer 14

The line of latitude that is 23.5 degrees north of the equator.

Question 15

What is the Greenwich Meridian?

Answer 15

It is the 0 degree line of longitude.

Question 16

What does the Greenwich meridian do?

Answer 16

It divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.

Question 17

What is the main important Line of longitude?

Answer 17

Greenwich meridian

Question 18

What so the Greenwich meridian also known as?

Answer 18

Prime meridian

Question 19

How many lines of longitude are there?

Answer 19

360

180 going east and 180 going west stating at 0 degrees from the Greenwich meridian

Question 20

What are lines of longitude also known and why?

Answer 20

Meridians because all places along a meridian has noon at the same time.

Question 21

A country or place is always located in_____ _______.

Answer 21

Two hemispheres

Question 22

What is opposite the Greenwich meridian? And what is located there?

Answer 22

The 180 degree line of longitude where the international date line is located.

Question 23

When you cross the international date line from east to west what happens?

Answer 23

A day is added.

Question 24

What happens when you cross the international date line from west to east?

Answer 24

A day is subtracted.

Question 25

How much percent of the surface of this world is ocean?

Answer 25

70 percent