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Question | Answer |
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What is latitude? | lines of latitude runs east and west around the world. |
What is a different name for latitude? | parallels. |
What are longitude? | lines of longitude are all same size and are not parallel. |
What is meridian? | Meridian is 0' longitude, and all other longitude lines are numbered up to 180'. |
What is the used of the global grid? | this allows any location on earth to be identified by an or nearly exact location. |
What is the tropic of cancer? | In the Northern Hemisphere , at about latitude 23'N is the tropic of cancer. |
What is Tropic of Capricorn? | This marks the place farthest north at which the sun ever shines directly overhead. |
What is tropical zone? | The section of earth between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn is know as the tropical zone. |
What is torrid zone? | A another name for tropical zone. |
What is arctic circle? | in the north hemisphere, north of 66.5'N latitude , the sun rise on at least on day in our winter and does not set on at least on day in summer. |
What is temperate zone? | The parts of earth between arctic circle and the tropic of Capricorn are know as the temperature. |
What is frigid zone | the zones north of the arctic circle and south of Antarctic circle are know as frigid zones. |
What is polar region? | is a other name for frigid zone. |
What is the axis? | Earth's axis is an imaginary line between the north pole and south pole. |