Our Earth lesson 1 Grade 5

THE SUN IS A ROUND BALL OF HOT GLOWING GASES.

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A globe is an exact model of the earth showing the correct shape and location of continents, oceans and seas on a smaller scale.

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The Largest Globe

Named Eartha, the Delorme globe is the world’s largest rotating and revolving globe.

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The axis of the globe has two end points called________

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• poles

•North Pole(at the bottom )

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South Pole( at the top)

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•90 circles are drawn North of the equator and 90 South of it. These 180 circles drawn parallel to the equator are called

• parallels of latitude

• parallels of longitude

360 Meridians of longitude have been drawn pole to pole on the globe.

These vertical lines are semi-circles that run from the North pole to the South Pole.

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