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Question | Answer |
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What are lines of latitude? | Lines that run east and west around earth |
What is a global grid? | latitude and longitude form a pattern of crossed lines |
What are lines of longitude? | lines that run north and south around earth |
Where is the tropic of cancer? | Northern Hemisphere at about latitude 23 degrees North |
What is the tropical Capricorn? | South of the equator at about 23 degrees South |
What is the tropical zone? | The section between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn |
What is the Torrid? | The section between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn |
What is the arctic circle? | In the Northern hemisphere 66.5 degrees N sun does not rise on at least one day in our winter and does not set on at least one day in our summer |
What is the antarctic circle? | In the Southern hemisphere 66.5 degrees S the sun does not rise on at least one day in our winter and does not set an at on at least one day in our summer |
What are temperate zones? | Parts of earth between the arctic circle and the tropic of cancer and between the antarctic circle and the tropic of Capricorn |
What are frigid zones? | The zones north of the arctic circle and south of the antarctic circle |
What are polar regions? | The zones north of the arctic circle and south of the antarctic circle |
What are axis? | an imaginary line between the north and the south pole |
What are parallels? | lines of latitude |
What are meridians? | lines of longitude |