Latitude and Longitude

What are latitudes?

• Imaginary lines that run from north to south

• Imaginary lines that run from west to east

• Imaginary lines that divide the earth into northern and southern hemispheres

• Imaginary lines that divide the earth into western and eastern hemispheres

What is the equator?

• The line that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres

• The line that divides the earth into western and eastern hemispheres

• The line that divides the earth into temperate and tropical zones

• The line that divides the earth into polar and temperate zones

What is the range of latitudes?

• 0 to 90 degrees

• 0 to 180 degrees

• -90 to 90 degrees

• -180 to 180 degrees

What are the tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn?

• Latitudes that mark the boundaries of the tropical zone

• Latitudes that mark the boundaries of the temperate zone

• Latitudes that mark the boundaries of the polar zone

• Latitudes that mark the boundaries of the equator

What is the temperate zone?

• The region between the tropical lines

• The region between the tropics and polar circles

• The region between the equator and prime meridian

• The region between the arctic and antarctic circles

What is the prime meridian?

• The line that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres

• The line that divides the earth into western and eastern hemispheres

• The line that divides the earth into temperate and tropical zones

• The line that divides the earth into western and eastern hemispheres

What is the time difference between two places for every degree of longitude?

• 1 minute

• 2 minutes

• 3 minutes

• 4 minutes

How do latitude and longitude help us locate a place on the map?

• By determining the climate zone of a place

• By measuring the distance between two places

• By providing the coordinates of a place

• By dividing the earth into different hemispheres