Latitude & Longitude Vocabulary

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

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• North Pole

• South Pole

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

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• North Pole

• South Pole

• The map show the lines of longitude.
• The map shows the lines of latitude.

This map shows lines of

• longitude.

• latitude.

To locate a place on the earth, you need to look at...

• where the lines of latitude and longitude meet.

• the lines of latitude only.

• the lines of longitude only.

• the compass rose.

Lines of longitude run from

• east to west.

• north to south.

Lines of ______ measure how far a place is from the Equator.

• longitude

• latitude

The invisible line at 0 degrees latitude is called the

• International Date Line.

• Prime Meridian.

• Equator.

• Arctic Circle.

The invisible line at 0 degrees longitude is called the _________.

• International Date Line
• Prime Meridian
• Equator
• Antarctic Circle

Latitude lines run from

• west to east.

• south to north.