Latitudes and Longitudes

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Homework Check and Review

Latitude and Longitude Packet

Latitude and Longitude Practice

Key

A B

C

D

E

F

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EW =Airport

= Forest

= Mountain Peaks

= Harbor

=Gold

= Copper

=Waterfall

1. What is the Physical feature located furthest to the North?

2. What are two ways in which people could get to, or leave the island?

3. Which of these towns would you say is the richest and why?

4. What are some of the products that you think they would make in town F?

5. What is the height of the tallest mountain peak of the area?

6. Why do you think the harbor is in the Northwest and not in the Southwest?

356 Ft

260 Ft

474 Feet

411 Feet

= Rocks

Latitudes and Longitudes

Created by,Mr. Raponi

Absolute Location

As we discussed during the “5 Themes of Geography”, Absolute Location describes a places

________________ ________________

Geographers identify Absolute location by using two types of imaginary lines.

Latitudes

Latitude lines are East-West Circles on the globe

Latitudes are also called

__________________ because they will never touch or come together.

Famous lines of latitude

_________________________

Tropic of Cancer

___________________________

___________________________

Latitude IILatitude lines circle the earth’s surface like a stack of rings.

The starting point for numbering latitude lines is

the _______________ which is 0° latitude.

Lines of latitude are numbered from 1° to 90° and are followed by an N or an S to show whether they are North or South of the Equator.

Longitude

Longitude lines circle the globe from North to South. All lines of longitude run through the north and south poles.

These lines, which are also called

__________________ intersect at the top and bottom of the globe.

Longitude II

Longitude lines run

____________________ from the North Pole to the South Pole.

The starting point is at 0° longitude, located in Greenwich, England and is known as the

______________________.

Longitude lines are numbered from 1° to 180° followed by an E or a W- to show whether they are east or west of the 0° line.

Points On A Map Latitude and longitude are used for locating any desired place on a map. Every single place on the map has a related latitude and longitude

If a pilot or a ship's captain wants to specify a position on a map, these are the "coordinates" they would use, the latitude number, followed by the longitude number.

Helpful Phrases to Remember Which is Which

I'm climbing the “LADDER OF LATITUDES”

It's a “LONG way from pole to pole for LONGitudes.”

How can I be as cool as Mr. Raponi someday?

I definitely need to be bald!!!!

It's a “LONG way from North Pole to South Pole for LONGitudes.”

I'm climbing the “LADDER OF LATITUDES” L

ONG

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Finding the

Coordinates

When locating coordinates, always look at the location of the latitude first.

After you have found that number, then proceed on to find the longitude.

Step 1

Baseball Player is Safe!!

(Latitude)Step 2

Fans Cheer!!

(Longitude)