Globe Special Lines

Horizontal lines that run from east to west around the world.

• Longitude

• Parallel Lines

• Latitude

• Meridian Lines

Vertical lines that run from one pole to another pole.

• Longitude

• Parallel Lines

• Meridian Lines

• Latitude

The distance between two meridians.

• Prime Meridian

• Latitude

• Meridian

• Longitude

The distance between two parallels.

• Parallel

• Meridian

• Longitude

• Latitude

It divides the world into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

It is known as the big circle that divides the world into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Prime Meridian

• Meridian

• Parallel

• Equator

This is the name for the parallel line that lies 23 ½ degrees north of the equator, and it is the northernmost border that the vertical rays of the sun reach.

• Antarctic Circle

• Tropic of Cancer

• Arctic Circle

• Tropic of Capricorn

It is a parallel line that lies 23 ½ degrees south of the equator, and it is the southernmost place that the vertical rays of the sun reach.

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

The parallel line lies at 66 ½ degrees north of the equator, and it is the northernmost part reached by the diagonal rays of the sun.

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

The parallel line lies at 66 ½ degrees south of the equator, and it is the southernmost part reached by the diagonal rays of the sun.

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn