Today’s Schedule – 8/27

• CNN Student News• Reading Check Quiz• 1.2 PPT: Geographer’s Tools Part 1 of 3• WS: Spy Tracking• HW: – Continue working on 1.2 Vocabulary

Organizing the Globe

• A globe is a scale model of the Earth• Useful for looking at the entire planet or large

areas of land or water

Grid

• Lines circle the globe east-west and north-south

• Lines are called latitude and longitude• Latitude (parallels)= east-west direction from

equator• Longitude (meridians)= north-south direction

from the Prime Meridian• Where these points intersect (coordinates)

helps us find location of places on a globe/map

Map Grid

Lines of Latitude

Lines of Longitude

Latitude and Longitude Together

Measuring Latitude and Longitude• Distances are measured in degrees–Each degree = 60 minutes

• Latitude ranges from 0° (the equator) to 90° in either north or south–North Pole = 90°N–South Pole = 90°S

Measuring Latitude and Longitude

• Longitude ranges from 0° on the Prime Meridian to 180° on a meridian in the Pacific Ocean in either east or west direction

Hemisphere• The equator divides the Earth in half–North of the equator is called the Northern

Hemisphere– South of the equator is called the Southern

Hemisphere• The Prime Meridian also divides the Earth in half– East of the Prime Meridian is the Eastern

Hemisphere–West of the Prime Meridian is the Western

Hemisphere

Hemispheres

Continents and Oceans

• Earth is made up of seven continents–North America, South America, Europe, Asia

(largest), Africa, Australia and Antarctica (smallest)

• Earth is made up of five oceans–Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern

Continents

Oceans