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What's the name of the vertical lines from the North Pole to the South Pole?
Meridians.
What's the name of the horizontal lines around the Earth?
Parallels.
How are meridians and parallels measured?
In degrees.
Meridians are measured in degrees...
East or West.
Parallels are measured in degrees...
North or South.
What do meridians measure?
Longitude.
What do parallels measure?
Latitude
The distance from the Equator is called...
Latitude
The distance from the Greenwich Meridian is called...
Longitude.
What is revolution?
It's the movement of the Earth around the Sun.
What is rotation?
It's the movement of the Earth on its own axis.
How long does it take the Earth to complete an orbit around the Sun?
It takes 365 days and 6 hours.
What is the Earth's axis?
It's an imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What does the revolution movement cause?
The seasons.
What are the four seasons?
Winter, spring, summer, autumn/fall.
How long does the Earth take to make a complete rotation?
24 hours (a day).
