23.5° north latitude

Tropic of Cancer

Another name for Meridians

Longitude

Name the “Circle of Latitude”Tropic of Cancer

What is the fifth largest continent?

Antarctica

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Scale

How is latitude and longitude measured?

Degrees

This line divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres

Equator

What is the second largest continent?

Africa

Gives a locations north and south of the equator

Latitude

A system geographers use to pin-point a location

Grid

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Compass Rose

A pair of numbers used to pin-point a location.

Coordinate

0° Longitude

Prime Meridian

North, South, East and West are known as…

Cardinal Directions

Nicknamed the “land of the midnight sun”

Arctic Circle

What are the 3 steps of finding latitude and longitude?

S: Find the starting point (latitude – equator or longitude – Prime Meridian)

D: Determine the direction (north/south of Equator or east/west of Prime Meridian)

D: Determine the distance (in degrees)

What is the third largest continent?

North America

Name the “Circle of Latitude”

Equator

What are the four immediate directions?

Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest

66° degrees south latitude

Antarctic Circle

Divides the earth in eastern and western hemispheres

Prime Meridian

Identify this continent…

Antarctica

What is the proper way coordinates should be written?

First number is latitude, second number longitude

Name the line of “Circle of Latitude”

Tropic of Capricorn

Name the five oceans of the world

Arctic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Southern Ocean

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Europe

What is the smallest continent?

Australia

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Asia

0° latitude

Equator

This line of latitude marks the northern limit of the tropics.

Tropic of Cancer

Identify this continent…

Africa

23.5° south latitude

Tropic of Capricorn