A Journey Through Latitude & Longitude

Created by Mrs. Robertson All sites active March 2009

The Procedure

• All of the questions and links are included in this presentation, but all of your answers must be put on the answer sheet.

• Before you begin print the answer sheet. (PDF)

• You may now begin your scavenger hunt!

Quest #1 – Where are we?

Locations on Earth can be described by

_______________ and _______________.

http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm

What is the name of an address of a specific

location on Earth? ____________________

http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm

Like the roads in Cedar City, lines of latitude

and longitude form what? __________

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/longlat.html

Quest 2 – Around and around

The parallel lines that go around the Earth are called_______________ or _____________________. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/latitude.html

0° in latitude is called the ____________________. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/latitude.html

90° north of the equator is called the ____________.http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/latitude.html

90° south of the equator is called the____________.http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/latitude.html

Quest 3 – Up and down

The lines that connect the poles are called

_______________ or __________________.http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/longitude.html

0° in longitude is called the ______________.

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/longitude.html

Quest 4 – Where in the world? Part 1

What are the latitude and longitude locations of: • Hickory, North Carolina? ________________• Glens Falls, New York? ________________• Cheyenne, Wyoming? ________________

http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_us.html

What are the latitude and longitude locations of: • Athens, Greece? ________________• Porto Alegre, Brazil? ________________• Vladivostok, Russia? ________________

http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_oc.html

Quest 5 – Where in the World! Part 2• Go to http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/southpole.edu/latlong.html

and read the information and directions. Locate the chart in direction VI.

• Complete the chart on your answer sheet with the exact latitude and longitude addresses of the locations in the provided list.

• Instead of using a map use http://www.confluence.org/search.php to determine which cities Janice and Randy visited.

• Complete the chart as you search each location.• You can also visit the Follow our Progress link

for more information.                           

Quest 6 – Show how much you know.

 

Take the latitude and longitude quiz http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/longlatquiz1.html  

Make sure to read the directions. HINT- Read the information next to the globe that reminds

you of the number of degrees between each line of

latitude and longitude.                              

Congratulations –

You have completed your journey!