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SIENCE 7
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Earth's grid or coordinate system
The
position
or location of any place on the
Earth's surface
Latitude
The measurement on a globe or map of a place north or
south
of the
equator
Identifying latitudinal positions on maps or globes
1.
Equidistant
circles are plotted and drawn
parallel
to the equator and each other
2. These are known as the
parallels
, or parallels of
latitude
Equator
The
great circle
around the
Earth
that is
equidistant
from the geographic poles and lies in a plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis
It
divides the Earth halfway into the Northern and Southern hemispheres at 0 degrees
latitude
and forms the imaginary
reference line
Lines of latitude with special names
Equator (0°)
Tropic of Cancer (23.5°N)
Tropic of Capricorn (23.5°S)
Arctic
Circle (66.5°N)
Antarctic Circle (66.5°S)
Tropics
The part of the world between the Tropic of
Cancer
and the Tropic of
Capricorn
Countries in this zone experience a
tropical
climate where the annual average temperature is above
18°C
Northern and
southern
temperate zones
Between the Tropic of
Cancer
and the Arctic Circle (
northern
)
Between the Tropic of
Capricorn
and the
Antarctic
Circle (southern)
Countries in these zones go through
four
seasons – winter, spring, summer, and
autumn
Polar
regions or frigid zones
The areas within the
Arctic
Circle and
Antarctic
Circle
Temperatures never go above
10°C
,
cold
all year round
Latitude
of a place
The
climate
it experiences
The closer the latitude is to the
equator
, the
warmer
the climate
The
closer
it is to the poles, the
colder
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