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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What lines run east and west around the earth? | Latitude lines. |
| What is another name for latitude? | Parallels. |
| What lines run north and south around the earth? | Longitude lines. |
| What is another word for longitude? | meridians. |
| When used together, latitude and longitude form a pattern of crossed lines called a? | Global grid. |
| In the Northern Hemisphere, at about latitude 23 degrees north is the? | Tropic of Cancer. |
| South of the Equator, at about latitude 23 degrees south is the? | Tropic of Capricorn. |
| What is the section of the earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn called? | Tropical zone. |
| What is another word for Tropical zone? | Torrid zone. |
| What is the place where the sun never sets during winter and never rises during summer? | Arctic Circle. |
| what is the place the sun never rises in winter and never sets in the summer | Antarctic Circle. |
| The zone between the two Circles are called? | Frigid Zone. |
| what is another word for Frigid Zone? | Polar Regions. |
| The center zone is called the? | Temperate Zone. |
| What is the imaginary line between the North and South Poles called? | The Axis. |