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What is the largest circle of latitude on Earth?
What is the largest circle of latitude on Earth?
- Equator (correct)
- Tropic of Cancer
- Arctic Circle
- Tropic of Capricorn
Which line of latitude is numbered 90 degrees N?
Which line of latitude is numbered 90 degrees N?
- Arctic Circle
- South Pole (correct)
- Tropic of Cancer
- Equator
What do the lines north of the equator toward the North Pole represent?
What do the lines north of the equator toward the North Pole represent?
- West Latitude
- South Latitude
- East Latitude
- North Latitude (correct)
At what degree from the equator are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn located?
At what degree from the equator are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn located?
What is the significance of the prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude?
What is the significance of the prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude?
Which continents are part of the Eastern Hemisphere based on their location relative to the prime meridian?
Which continents are part of the Eastern Hemisphere based on their location relative to the prime meridian?
How are meridians east and west of the prime meridian (0 degrees) typically numbered?
How are meridians east and west of the prime meridian (0 degrees) typically numbered?
What does the prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude do?
What does the prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude do?
Which continents are part of the Western Hemisphere according to the text?
Which continents are part of the Western Hemisphere according to the text?
How are the lines of longitude numbered as described in the text?
How are the lines of longitude numbered as described in the text?
Which continent is NOT part of the Eastern Hemisphere based on their location relative to the prime meridian?
Which continent is NOT part of the Eastern Hemisphere based on their location relative to the prime meridian?
At what degree of longitude would you find the International Date Line?
At what degree of longitude would you find the International Date Line?
If you were at 45 degrees west longitude, in which hemisphere would you be located?
If you were at 45 degrees west longitude, in which hemisphere would you be located?
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Study Notes
Meridians or Lines of Longitude
- The prime meridian sits at 0 degrees longitude, dividing the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
- The prime meridian is an imaginary line running through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, a suburb of London.
- The Eastern Hemisphere includes the continents of Europe, Asia, and Australia.
- The Western Hemisphere includes the continents of North and South America.
- Meridians east of the prime meridian are numbered from 1 to 180 degrees east (E).
- Meridians west of the prime meridian are numbered from 1 to 180 degrees west (W).
- The 0 and 180 lines do not have a letter attached to them.
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