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UNIDAD 1: EL PLANETA TIERRA
ACTIVITY 2: LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
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1.There are some important imaginary lines
on the Earth:
Click on the English words and copy their definitions in your notebook .
2. Any
location on Earth is described by two numbers--its latitude and its longitude.
If a pilot or a ship's captain wants to specify position on a map, these are the "coordinates" they
use.
Latitude gives the location of a place on Earth
north or south of the Equator.
Latitude is an angular
measurement in degrees
ranging from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the poles (90° N
for the North
Pole or 90° S for the South
Pole).
a)
To find out more about Latitude clik here
Longitude describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the Prime Meridian to 180° eastward and 180° westward. Today the Prime Meridiam is Greenwich Meridiam.
b)
To find out more about Longitude click here
1)
What range does latitude have?
2)
And longitude?
4. Click here and do the exercise.
