WorksheetsGlobe Special Lines
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Worksheet time: 6mins
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
The combined latitude and longitude lines.
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