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Why were these lines created?
To help in geographical location
What is a coordinate?
The intersection of latitudes and longitudes
What are the directions of latitudes and longitudes respectively?
Horizontal and vertical
Who was the greek astronomer who first thought about the concept of coordinates?
Hipparcus
What are the other names for latitudes?
Parallels
What is the name of the latitude that divides the Earth in half?
Equator
How are the halves of the Earth called?
Hemispheres
What are the names of the tropics?
Cancer and Capricorn
What are the names of the circles after the tropics?
Arctic and Antarctic
What is located in the horizontal extremes of the Earth?
North Pole and South Pole
What are the climatic zones?
Tropical, temperate and polar/frigid
What other name does the Prime Meridian have?
Greewich Meridian
Europe is entirely in the North Hemisphere. True or false?
True
What hemispheres does the Equator divide?
North and south
What hemispheres does the Prime Meridian divide?
West and East
How much in kilometers is 1º of latitude?
110 km
