GEOGRAPHY IV GLOBAL LINES

These lines run across a map east to west. They start at 0 degrees at the equator and end at 90 degrees.

These lines divide the earth on the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere.

• latitude

• longitude

• equator

• cancer

What is the major line of latitude?

• parallels

• meridiam

• equator

• cancer

Tropic of cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and the Antartic Circle are the major parallels of ______________ from north to south.

• Latitudes

• longitude

Which of the following is located at 0 degrees longitude?

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Tropic of Cancer

• International Date Line

What is the term for the lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole?

• latitudes

• longitudes

• parallels

• meridians

The__________ divides the earth into the Northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphire is marks the location of 0 degrees latitude.

• Equator

• cancer

• capricorn

• longitude

The ______________ marks the location where the sun reaches the zenith at this latitude.

• tropic of cancer

• Equator

• tropic of capricorn

The Tropic of ___________ is the parallel line of latitude that is currently located at 23° 26´14.440.

• Tropic of capricorn

• Equator

• Tropic of cancer

________ are lines of longitude that run north -south.

• meridians

• parallels

The Lines of latitude are called________

• parallels

• meridians