Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Quiz on Latitude, longitude next class; review below and on Wikipedia

Latitude, longitude globe by trudeau
Latitude, longitude globe, a photo by trudeau on Flickr.

Sharpen your review of the coordinates by using wikipedia and these practice locations . . .

- 1N, 104E
- 33S, 18E
- 24S, 47W
- 30N, 31E
- 34N, 118W
- 26N, 80W
- 36N, 140E
- 45N, 74W
- 32N, 94W

Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Shreveport, Cairo, Egypt, Cape Town, South Africa, Miami, Singapore, Tokyo, Japan, Montreal, Canada

Define
- Equator, Prime meridian

- Is Shreveport's Line Ave a meridian? yes.
- Is King's Hwy? No.
- Why?