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Imaginary Lines

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