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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