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Maps and Globes

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  • What is the equator?
    An imaginary line that divides the North and South Hemispheres.
  • What imaginary lines go from the North Pole to the South Pole?
    Lines of longitude
  • Where is there more land: in the Northern or in the Southern Hemisphere?
    The Northern
  • Name three countries that are in the Southern Hemisphere
    For example: Argentina, South Africa, Australia
  • What is a GPS?
    A Global Positioning System (GPS). It uses satellites to help tell us where we are.
  • What is this?
    A continent
  • Name three countries that are in the Northern Hemisphere
    For example: Canada, Norway, Russia
  • What imaginary line divides the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere?
    The Greenwich Meridian
  • What instrument do we use to find north?
    A compass
  • What is the difference between a map and a globe?
    A map is a two-dimensional (flat) and a globe is three-dimensional (a sphere).
  • What imaginary lines go horizontally around the Earth?
    Lines of latitude