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Latitude Lines
1.
What are the 5 key lines of latitude and their degrees?
a. __Arctic Circle____________
__66 1/2°N__
b. __Tropic of Cancer________________
__23 1/2°N__
c. __Equator___________________
___0°___
d. __Tropic of Capricorn_______________
__23 1/2°S___
e. ___Antarctic Circle______________________
___66 1/2° S__
2.
How many degrees does the earth tilt?
____23 ½ ° on its axis_______
3.
Why is the equator a natural dividing circle?___________________________
_______It is in the center, equidistant from the Poles and the Tropics.__ ____
4.
What line of latitude does the sun shine directly on March 21st?
_________Equator_________________________
5.
What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
_____spring, vernal equinox________________________
6.
What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
_____fall, autumnal equinox_____________________________
7.
What line of latitude does the sun shine directly on June 21st?
_______Tropic of Cancer___________________________________
8.
What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
_______summer, summer solstice_____________________________
9.
What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
______winter, winter solstice__________________________
10.
What line of latitude does the sun shine directly on September 23rd?
______Equator_________________________
11.
What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
_____Autumn, autumnal equinox__________________
12.
What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
___________spring, vernal equinox____________________________
13.
What line of latitude does the sun shine directly on December 21st?
______________Tropic of Capricorn________________________
14.
What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
_______winter, winter solstice___________________
15.
What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere? What is this day called?
________summer, summer solstice____________________________
16.
How does the angle of the sun’s ray affect the amount of heat it gives off?
______”the more direct, the hotter it gets”_ the more direct rays from
the sun a location receivers, the hotter the temperatures ____
17.
Where will the sun’s rays shine directly when Antarctica has no sun at all?
__________Tropic of Cancer_______________
18.
Where will the sun’s rays shine directly when the North Pole and the South
Pole have equal amounts of light? the Equator
_______________________________________________________________
19.
Which part of the earth has greatly changing seasons? Why?
____ The Middle Latitudes or the areas between the 23 1/2° and
66 ½° in the northern and southern hemispheres, where temperatures
vary during winter and summer._______
20.
Which part of the earth has a light and dark season? Arctic Circle and
Antarctic Circle
21.
Where does the sun shine directly on the fall equinox? Equator
_______________________________________________________________
22.
What are the seasons’s in the Equatorial Zones? wet and dry
_______________________________________________________________
23.
When is our longest day? June 21st, summer solstice
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24.
When is our shortest day? December 21st, winter solstice
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25.
What is Saturday? the first day of fall, autumnal equinox
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