1. Can you follow directions?

2. Do you know the intermediate directions?
Cardinal directions
Most common directions on maps
North, South, East, West
Do you know the intermediate directions?

3. Intermediate directions How about more directions?
Points located half way between the cardinal directions
Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
How about more directions?

5. The science of mapmaking
Cartography
The science of mapmaking
What is latitude?
What is longitude?

6. The angular distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees
Latitude
The angular distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees
Equator = 00
Poles = 900
Parallel: any circle that runs east and west around the Earth and that is parallel to the equator; a line of latitude

7. Latitude
The horizontal lines that circle the globe are called Lines of Latitude.
Lines of Latitude are also known as parallels because they parallel, or run in the same direction as the Equator.

8. Longitude
the angular distance east or west of the prime meridian measured in degrees to 1800
Because a circle is 3600, the meridian opposite the prime meridian, halfway around the World, is labeled 1800.
There are east lines of longitude and west lines of longitude.
East lines of longitude meet west lines of longitude forming the International Dateline at 1800.

9. Longitude
The lines that run between the North and the South Poles are called Lines of Longitude, or meridians.

10. Lines are not parallel.
Distances vary with each location.
Lines of longitude converge at the poles into one point.
At the equator the degree of longitude is more (larger) than a degree near the poles.
The degree of distance decreases as you move away from the equator to the poles.

11. Prime Meridian: imaginary line representing 00 longitude, running from the north pole, through Greenwich, England, to the south pole
International dateline: it is at 1800 meridian, serves as the transition line for calendar days

12. Hemispheres Geographers divide the earth into hemispheres.
Everything north of the equator is in the Northern Hemisphere, while everything south of the equator is in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Western Hemisphere is west of the Prime Meridian, while the Eastern Hemisphere is east of the Prime Meridian. The hemispheres both end at the International Date Line.

13. 40°N Latitude, 105° W Longitude
Finding Places
41°N
40°N
39°N
38°N
37°N
109°W
108°W
107°W
106°W
105°W
104°W
103°W
102°W
Grand Junction
Delta
Durango
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Mt. Elbert
Boulder
Denver
Find 40 ° N Latitude
What city is located at this latitude?
Boulder
What line of Longitude is closest to this city?
105° W
Latitude is always written first:
How would you write the coordinates correctly for the city of Boulder? N
40°N Latitude, 105° W Longitude

14. Practicing Map Skills Which line of Latitude runs near Pikes Peak?
Grand Junction
Delta
Durango
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Mt. Elbert
Boulder
Denver
Which line of Latitude runs near Pikes Peak?
Which line of Longitude runs near Pikes Peak?
Write the correct location for Pikes Peak using Longitude and Latitude
What city is near 39°N Latitude, 108°W Longitude?

15. Answers 39°N 105°W 39° N Latitude, 105° W Longitude Delta
Grand Junction
Delta
Durango
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Mt. Elbert
Boulder
Denver
What is the coordinates of the City of Durango?
37½° N Latitude,
108° W Longitude

17. USING THE GLOBE
1.Get a globe from the back of the room. 2. With your table group find the latitude and longitude of two places on Earth. 3. Write the name of the location and write the latitude and longitude correctly.

18. Latitude and Longitude
Learning Event

19. Collaborative Review
1. Notes – with a partner, read over the notes and do some SELECTIVE highlighting.
2. Book – with that same partner, get an Earth Science book and answer questions 1, 2, 5, and 7 on page 56. Put your complete answers on your own paper.