Write the following list of vocabulary in the Vocabulary part from your notebook.

2. Define the following terms and say the word in Spanish:

- Parallel: are imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator.
- Meridian: are imaginary semi-circles that go from pole to pole
- Equator: The Equator is an imaginary circle around the widest part of the Earth. It divides our
planet into two equal halves or hemispheres, a Greek word meaning half a sphere.
- Greenwich meridian: Is the prime meridian and divides the Earth into two halves. It is longitud 0ª.
It is the line of longitud that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in England.
- Tropic of Cancer: it is the imaginary line of latitude located at 23°30' north of the equator. The
Sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer on the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere
(June 21).
- Tropic of Capricorn: It is the imaginary line of latitude located at 23°30' south. The Sun is directly
overhead the Tropic of Capricorn on the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere (December
21).
- Artic Circle: parallel, or line of latitude around the Earth.
- Antarctic Circle: is one of the two polar circles and the most northerly of the five major circles of
latitude as shown on maps of Earth.
- Northern hemisphere: is the part of the planet that is north of the equato
- Southern hemisphere: the part of the earth that lies south of the equator (que se encuentra al sur
del ecuador)
- Western hemisphere: the half of Earth that lies west of the Greenwich meridian (prime meridian,
0° longitude) continuing to the 180th meridian.
- Eastern hemisphere: as being the half of Earth that lies east of the Greenwich meridian (prime
meridian, 0° longitude) continuing to the 180th meridian.
como la mitad de la Tierra que se encuentra al este del meridiano de Greenwich (primer meridiano,
longitud 0 °) y continúa hasta el meridiano 180
- Latitude: is the angular distance between any point on Earth and the Equator. (0° latitude).
Latitude can be north or south and range from 0° (the Equator) to 90° (at the poles).
(It is the distance between a place and the Equator. It is measured in degrees, minutes and seconds,
and can be north and south. It gives the location of a place on Earth)
- Longitude: is the angular distance between any point on the Earth and prime meridian or
Greenwich meridian. It can be east or west and range from 0° (Greenwich) to 180° (the International
Date Line in the Pacific Ocean)