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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a line of latitude? | lines that run east and west around the earth |
| What are parallel lines? | lines that are the same distance apart |
| What is a global grid? | a global grid allows any location to be identified by an exact or nearly exact location |
| What is longitude ? | lines that run north and south around the earth |
| What is a meridian | a line that runs south or north around the earth |
| What is a tropic of cancer? | a place where the sun never shines directly |
| What is the tropic of Capricorn? | a place far south where the sun does not shine directly |
| What is a torrid zone or a tropical zone? | a place where the sun does not rise one day and does not set one day |
| What is a axis? | an imaginary line that runs between the north pole |
| What is the arctic circle? | the southern hemisphere that is 66.5N |
| What is the antarctic circle? | then zone north of the arctic circle |
| what are frigid zones or polar regions? | parts of earth between the arctic circle and the tropic if cancer |
| what are temperate zones | a place close to the arctic circle and the tropic of Capricorn |