Geography

3rd
Anna Grace Watford
 • 3.1.2 Locate the world’s four hemispheres
(i.e., northern, southern, eastern, and
western) by using the major components of
latitude and longitude (i.e., the Equator, the
Prime Meridian, lines of latitude (i.e.,
Standards parallels), lines of longitude (i.e., meridians),
and the International Date Line).
and • Students will be able to locate the worlds
Objectives four hemispheres along with latitude and
longitude, and the international dateline.
Allowing them to better locate other places
around the world because they will better
understand how the world is broken up.
 What is a hemisphere?
• A hemisphere is one half of the Earth
• Hemi- means half and sphere means ball
Hemispheres How many hemispheres are there?
of the world • There are four hemispheres
What are the four hemispheres?
• Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western
Latitude
•What is Latitude?
• Lines of Latitude run
horizontally
• Latitude is measure in degrees
• Lines of latitude measure how
far form the equator a place is
• Lines run eat and west
• Lines are also called parallels
Longitude
• What is Longitude?
• Lines of Longitude run vertically
• Longitude is measured in
degrees
• Lines of longitude run north
and south
• Lines of longitude run from the
North Pole to the South pole
What you need to know!
Prime Meridian
• A line of longitude that divides the earth into the eastern and western
hemispheres
Equator
• A line of latitude that
crosses the globe
exactly halfway
between the north and
the south poles
What you need
to know!
International Date Line
• Separates two consecutive
calendar dates
• Cross to the west and it’s one
day later; cross back and you
have “gone back in time.”
Vocabulary Fill-in!
Longitude
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Latitude
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Answer Reveal
• How many hemispheres are there?

• Eight Answer

• Three Four
• Four
• Five
Pick the correct answer

The Equator is a line of __________?

A. Latitude
B. Longitude
C. Meridian
True or False

The Prime Meridian run horizontally

True
False

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 Which way is vertical?

A. B.

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What is the international date line?
Answer
A. A place everyone can go out to dinner B
B. Boundary between one calendar day and the next
C. The core of the earth