Social Studies: Latitude & Longitude

Ms. Jockel painted a foam ball to look like a globe. Then, she cut the ball in half to demonstrate the idea of ____, or halves of the Earth.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• hemispheres

• coordinates

Franklin Regional Intermediate School is about 3 blocks west of the police station. The person who provided these directions used ___ to explain the location of the school.

• coordinates

• relative location

• absolute location

• cartographer

Kyler wanted to find the absolute location of his city, so he used a map to locate his city's ___. He discovered that his city was located at 68°N, 32°E.

• absolute location

• relative location

• coordinates

• hemisphere

If Mr. Miller stands on the ___ and walks west, he will enter the Western Hemisphere.

• longitude

• latitude

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

A ___ must be able to use lines of latitude and longitude to mark specific locations on maps.

• latitude

• cartographer

• longitude

• photographer

What allows us to find locations north or south of the Equator?

• lines of latitude

• hemispheres

• relative location

• lines of longitude

You'll find Franklin Regional Intermediate School at 4125 Sardis Road. The person who gave this information used ___ to explain the location of the school.

• relative location

• absolute location

• coordinates

• cartographers

Kaleb lives in the ___. His home country is west of the Prime Meridian.

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

Mrs. Sherwin wanted to find out which countries touch the ___.

Using a map, she wrote down each country that intersected with the line of 0° latitude.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• coordinates

• hemispheres

Lines of ___ allow us to find locations east or west of the Prime Meridian.

• coordinates

• hemispheres

• latitude

• longitude