Latitude and Longitude Vocabulary

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Latitude Lines

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Imaginary lines that circle the globe and tell you how far north or south a location is from the equator.

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Longitude Lines

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Imaginary lines that circle the globe and tell you how far east or west a location is from the prime meridian.

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The latitude line at 0° is called

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The Equator

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The longitude line at 0° is called

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The Prime Meridian

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Which Hemisphere is shaded grey? Options: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western

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Southern

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Which hemisphere is shaded grey? Options: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western

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Northern

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Which hemisphere is shaded blue?

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Western

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Which hemisphere is shaded blue?

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Eastern

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Another name for a latitude line is a

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parallel

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Another name for a longitude line is a

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meridian