Дистанційне навчання 6-Д Pace Work(Social studies) 14/01/2021

 Тема: Екватор. Нульовий меридіан


Reading the text “We Learn About Latitude and Longitude”


Directions: in order to study the earth, we need to be able to locate specific points.
Cardinal Directions: North, East, West, South.
 Intermediate Directions: Lie between the cardinal directions and help to indicate direction more accurately. Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, Southeast.
The earth is an almost perfect sphere. 
Geographers have drawn imaginary lines around the spherical earth as a means of determining the location of specific points upon its surface.
Latitude:  Imaginary lines that run east-west around the globe. It is the distance north to south of the equator.
The Equator is 0 degrees latitude.
Degrees are units of measure. There are 180 degrees of latitude.
Minutes are smaller units of the measure of degrees. There are 60 minutes in each degree.           Seconds are smaller units of the measure of minutes. There are 60 seconds in          each minute.
Lines of latitude are also called parallels. They never cross.

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