lines on the globe and times zones

• 1. Key =Capital City = River =Windmills =Airport
  • What tourist attraction is found on the map?

• Why does nobody live in the Southeastern portion of this area?

• In what type of job do you think most of the people in town D work in?

• In what town do the occupants practice a clean form of energy production?

• Why do you think that the people of this area chose Town E as their capital?

• Name 3 types of transportation that is found in this area.

=Ship Port = HelicopterPad A B C D E F H =Oil Fields = Desert =Ancient Pyramid N S E W 2. Lines on the Globe and Time Zones Created by Mr. Raponi 3. The Major Lineof Longitude

• The main line of Longitude that runs through,

• ________________, England is called the

• _______________ and it divides the world into eastern and western hemispheres.

• A Hemisphere is one half of the earth.

Greenwich Prime Meridian 4. 5. 6. Looking at Latitudes

• The

• _____________ is an imaginary line that circles the Earth at 0 latitude.

• This is exactly halfway between the North Pole (90 North) and the South Pole (90 South)

Equator 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. The Equator 12. Looking at Latitudes

• The Northern boundary of the Tropics, which is

• located at ___________ North is known as the

• ___________________.

• The Southern boundary of the Tropics, which is

• located at ___________ South is known as the

• ___________________.

23 1/2 Tropic of Cancer 23 1/2 Tropic of Capricorn 13. Arctic Circle 66 1/2 N Tropic of Cancer 23 1/2 N Equator 0 Tropic of Capricorn 23 1/2 S Antarctic Circle 66 1/2 S Prime Meridian 0 14. I Can Eat Corn Can = Tropic ofCAN cer Eat = Equator Corn = Tropic of Capri CORN 15. Climate DealingWith Latitude

• The hottest points on the Earth are located directly on

• the __________________, this is the closest point to the sun on the Earth.

• The further away from the Equator that you travel, the colder the temperature becomes.

• Example, the North Pole and South Pole are both tremendously cold as they are about as far away from the Equator as you could be.

Equator 16. Time Zones

• The Earth has a circumference of

• ____________ degrees and you are all aware that

• there are ______ hours in a day.

• So it is impossible for it to be the same time of day at every point on the Earth at the same time. This is where time zones come in.

• In a Time Zone, every

• ___________ degrees of

• _________________ equals one hour.

360 24 15 Longitude 17. Brain Pop Video

• Time Zones

18. Time Zone II

• For example, if your were hanging out in Peabody at 9 p.m. and wanted to call your friend Oleg who lives in Berlin, Germany, think about this.

• Germany is 90 degrees east, making Germany

• ___________________ time zones away, IT IS 3 A.M. IN GERMANY!!!!!, YOUR FRIEND IS PROBABLY SLEEPING, CALL HIM TOMORROW!!!!

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