Latitude and Longitude

Understanding Location

Learning Intentions

• To learn about latitude and longitude and important lines on a map

• To learn about grid referencing

• To learn about latitude and longitude and important lines on a map

SUCCESS CRITERIA

I can identify and explain location of places using grid referencing

I know what latitude and longitude is and can identify important lines on a map

I can identify location using latitude and longitude

Latitude

• Lat is Flat

• Lines of latitude are imaginary lines that run around the earth’s circumference.

• They run parallel to each other so they are known as the parallels of latitude.

• The most important line of latitude is the equator and divides the world into North and South.

Multiple Choice

Which streets are parallel on the following map of the CBD

• Bourke and Elizabeth

• Swanston and Exhibition

• Russel and Lonsdale

Important

Latitude is measured in degrees North and degrees South.

North Pole is 90° N

Multiple Choice

what latitude is the Equator?

• 0 degrees

• 90 degrees N

• 90 degrees S

• 90 degrees W

IMPORTANT NOTES

• North Pole – 90° N

• Arctic Circle – 66.5° N

• Tropic of Cancer – 23.5° N

• Equator – 0° 

• Tropic of Capricorn – 23.5° S

• Antarctic Circle – 66.5° S

• South Pole – 90° S

IMPORTANT NOTES

• North Pole – 90° N

• Arctic Circle – 66.5° N

• Tropic of Cancer – 23.5° N

• Equator – 0° 

• Tropic of Capricorn – 23.5° S

• Antarctic Circle – 66.5° S

• South Pole – 90° S

What does changing your latitude change?

• Latitude influences CLIMATE

• Solar radiation is stronger and more direct at the equator. This means that places at the equator are hotter than places near the Poles.

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CLIMATE - Draw and label into your book or draw the Key

• Tropical is Red

• Temerate is green

• Polar is light blue

Multiple Choice

What does this represent

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Parallels

Lines of Longitude

• Also called meridians

• Run North South direction

• 0 degrees is the Prime Meridian

• Prime Meridian runs through Greenwhich England

• Furthest apart at equator and meet at the poles...

• Therefore...they are NOT parallel.

Multiple Choice

True or False...The Prime Meridian divides the world in East and West

• False

• True

What do meridian lines of longitude do?

• Influence time zone

• There are 24 hours in a day and 24 time zones. Each zone is 15° wide.

• There are 24 hours in a day and 24 time zones. Each zone is 15° wide.