Longitude pa Rolin g onan [eifeyayr-t lie Betaiae ely Prolong Ole ieie|) —-++-Lateral-- + 4 — — - --____ Growing Your Vocabulary: eigen Rens sae long latChapter ¢: Chapter Gi In All Directions in Al Directions Ever think about how long people live or how far away something wl In this chapter youl earn some words we use 10 talk about the length of things. Roots to Learn: Words to Learn: lon jongitude longevity 2 elongate latitude ‘oblong lateral prolong unilateral lat The Latin word LONGUS means “Jong! The root LONG comes from the word LONGUS and forms many other English words. ‘The LONGITUDE of place isan imaginary Ine of snaps and globes that stretches north and south across Tarth, Marked in degrees these lines measure distance +o the east and west The most important line of LONGITUDE is called the Prime Meridian. It runs through Greenwich, England, and has a measurement of 0 degrees longitude. If ‘you move east from the Prime Meridian, the lines of Tongitude go up to 180°, fyou move west from the Prime Meridian,the lines of longitude also go up to 80°, but are negative. For example, NewYorkhasa Jian measures how far away longitude of about -74°. London is by using lines of longitude Growing Your Vocabulary: Leaning (ors (287 and Greek RiChapler 4%: In All Directions ELONGATE means "to make something longer" Ts Both giraffes and humans have seven bones in their necks. That's Manz an amazing fact! A giraffe's neck is longer only because each az of the bones is larger than a human's. Imagine if you were to ELONGATE your neck bones and the spaces between the bones.Your neck would be long too! you Wave seven Neck Bones? iy Giraffes and humans actually have the same number of bones in their necks, but giraffe bones are elongated. Something that is OBLONG is stretched out. We often use the word OBLONG to describe circles stretched into ovals. ‘An oblong circle, or oval, is longer than itis wide. Did You Know? te The town of Oblong, Illinois, was & named for its oblong shape. Much ~ 2 a of Illinois is covered in woods and Wh Se Ke shrubbery, but Oblong is covered in « = ase prairie grass. Hunters and trappers Qe = Pres visited this oblong tract of land long FA UR before it became a town. Connor's watermelon is but Gina's is oblong, rou