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Question | Answer |
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What are latitude? | Lines that run east and west around the earth. |
What are longitude? | Lines that run North and South around the earth. |
What is the global grid ? | The latitude lines and longitude lines make a grid around the earth. |
What is another name for latitude lines? | Parallels lines. |
What is another name for the longitude lines ? | Meridians lines. |
Where is the Tropic of cancer located at? | North Hemisphere at about 23 degrees North. |
Where is the Tropical of Capricorn ? | South hemisphere at about 23 degree South . |
What is the space between the tropic of cancer and Capricorn called ? | Tropical Zone |
What is another name for Tropical Zone? | Torrid Zone |
Where is the Arctic Circle? | North Hemisphere north of 66.5 degrees North. |
Where is the Antarctic Circle? | South Hemisphere south 66.5 degrees South |
Where is the Temperate Zone located at? | In between the Arctic Circle and Tropical of Cancer and between the Antarctic Circle and Tropic of Capricorn. |
What are the zones north the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle known as? | The Fridge Zone. |
What is another name for Frigid Zone ? | Polar Regions |
What is the Earth's Axis? | An imaginary line between the north and south pole. |