Lines of latitude measure how far north or south a place is. They are measured in degrees starting from which line?

A ship's captain wants to know how far east of the prime meridian her ship has sailed. Which measurement gives her that answer?

The Equator passes through one of the 50 U.S. states.

A city's location is given as 40 degrees north, 105 degrees west. About how many degrees north of the Equator is the city?

Lines of latitude circle the globe from east to west and stay the same distance apart. What do lines of longitude do instead?

On a globe, lines of latitude and lines of longitude cross each other to form a pattern of crossing lines called a ___.

On a globe, Riverton sits exactly on the Prime Meridian, and Lakeside sits 20 degrees west of Riverton. What is Lakeside's approximate longitude?

Latitude is counted in degrees away from the equator. What is the highest number of degrees of latitude a place on Earth can have?

Two towns both sit at 35 degrees north latitude. One town is at 80 degrees west and the other is at 120 degrees west. How are the towns alike?

A student wants to describe the general location of any place on Earth using two numbers in degrees. Which pair of measurements should she use?

What do lines of latitude measure?

Lines of longitude have another name. What are they also called?

A place at 60° N is farther from the Equator than a place at 30° N.

The Prime Meridian is at 0 degrees longitude.

Pine City sits at 50° N. Elm City sits at 20° N. Which city is farther north of the Equator?

Dawn Harbor sits at 30° E. Sunset Bay sits at 70° E. Which town is farther east of the Prime Meridian?

Lines of latitude run east and west around Earth.

Lines of latitude get shorter as they get closer to the North and South Poles.

Mapleton sits at 55° N. Cedarville sits at 15° N. Which town is farther north of the Equator?

Mesa Town is located 60 degrees north of the Equator. What is Mesa Town's latitude?

Camp Alpha is at 15° S. Camp Beta is at 45° S. Which camp is farther south of the Equator?

A place at 100° W is farther from the Prime Meridian than a place at 40° W.

What is the usual order for writing map coordinates?

A place is north of the Equator. Its coordinate could be 25° N, 25° S, 25° W, or 25° E. Which one is it?

A place is west of the Prime Meridian. Its coordinate could be 90° W, 90° E, 90° N, or 90° S. Which one is it?

The Equator is the line at 0° latitude. Which two halves of Earth does it divide?

The Prime Meridian is the line at 0° longitude. Which two halves of Earth does it divide?

Fernwood is at 25° N. Oakdale is at 25° S. How do their distances from the Equator compare?

Harbor View sits on a globe 30 degrees east of Central City. Central City is at 10° E. What is Harbor View's approximate longitude?

Which tool uses latitude and longitude to show an exact location?

Kent is at 30° W. Dover is at 30° E. How do their distances from the Prime Meridian compare?

Which line is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole?

Two cities are both at 75° W longitude. What is true about where they are?

Lines of latitude have another name. What are they also called?

The Equator and the Prime Meridian never cross each other.

The letter E in a coordinate tells how far north a place is.

Silver Creek is located 10 degrees south of the Equator. What is Silver Creek's latitude?

A mapmaker writes a city's location as 40° N, 75° W. Which number is the city's longitude?

A city at 30° S is north of the Equator.

A city at 100° W is east of the Prime Meridian.