Latitude and Longitude

What are latitude and longitude lines?

• Imaginary lines that divide the Earth

• Visible lines that divide the Earth

• Long and short lines that divide the Earth

What is the name of this line at 0 degrees latitude?

• Prime Meridian

• North Pole

• South Pole

• Equator

What is the name of the line at zero degrees longitude?

• Equator

• North Pole

• South Pole

• Prime Meridian

What does this map show?

• The map shows lines of longitude.

• The map shows lines of latitude.

_______ lines on a globe run from east to west.

• North Pole

• South Pole

• Latitude

• Longitude

The two coordinates that are needed to find a location.

• prime meridian and equator

• longitude and latitude

Hemispheres are halves of the globe.

• true

• false