 What is mean by imaginary lines on the globe?

 What is Latitude?

 What is Longitude?
• The Equator is an imaginary circular line and is a very

important reference point to locate places on the earth.

• All parallel circles from the equator up to the poles are called

Parallels of Latitudes.

• Latitudes are measured in degrees.

Besides the equator(0˚), the North pole (90˚N) and the South

Pole(90˚S), there are four important parallels of latitudes-

1) Tropic of Cancer(231/2 ˚N) in Northern Hemisphere,

2) Tropic of Capricorn (231/2 ˚S) in the Southern Hemisphere,

3) Arctic Circle at 661/2 ˚ North of the equator,

4) Antarctic Circle at 661/2 ˚ South of the equator.

 Summary

Latitude – Longitude

Parallels of Latitude and Heat Zone

Longitude and Time Zone

Movements of the earth

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• What is Parallels of latitude?

• Write Heat zones of the earth with their extents.

• Differentiate between Revolution and Rotation of the

earth.