Chapter 4: Locating Places on a Globe [Online Work 6]

What do you call the vertical north-south lines?

• Horizontal

• Vertical

• Latitude

• Longtitude

What is the other name for latitude lines?

• Longtitude

• Northing

• Horizontal east-west

• Vertical north-south

The latitude line is the distance north or south of what line?

• Hemisphere

• Imaginary

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

The equator divides the earth into the northern and southern _________________.

• longitude

• latitude

• hemispheres

• lines

Latitudes are counted from _________________________ as they go northwards to North Pole or southwards to South Pole.

• 0° to 45°

• 0° to 90°

• 0° to 150°

• 0° to 180°

How are longitude lines drawn?

• half circle from the globe

• half circle from the equator

• half circle from the North Pole to the South Pole

• half circle from the Greenwich

What is the lines measured in degrees to the west to the west or east of the lines known as?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

How are the lines of the Prime Meridian measured?

• 0° to 90°(East/West)

• 0° to 90°(North/South)

• 0° to 180°(North/South)

• 0° to 180°(East/West)

What is the line at 180°E and 180°, line opposite the Prime Meridian known as?

• Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

• International Date Line

When locating a place on a map using it's latitude and it's longitude, which lines do you read first?

• Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Prime Meridian