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Week Three Geography Warm Ups

Globe Skills

By Melissa Kelly, About.com

  1. What line of latitude divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?

    Answer: the Equator


  2. What line of longitude divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres?

    Answer: the Prime Meridian


  3. Of latitude and longitude, which one's lines are parallel?

    Answer: latitude


  4. At what degree latitude is the Tropic of Cancer?


  5. Answer: 23.5 degrees North

  6. At what degree latitude is the Arctic Circle?

    Answer: 66.5 degrees North


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