Science - Locating places on Earth

• The equator is the imaginary line that circles the earth, that seperates the earth into Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere
• The tropics are the regions near the equator where the sun's rays hit directly overhead at noon.
• Tropics


  The part of the map between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
• The Philippines is part of the tropics region
• Arctic Circle


  An imaginary line around the Earth at approximately 66.5 degrees north latitude
• Antarctic Circle


  An imaginary line around the Earth at approximately 66.5 degrees south latitude
• Northern temperate zone


  The area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle
• Southern temperate zone


  The area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle
• Places or Countries in the temperate zones go through the four seasons - winter, spring, summer, and autumn
• Polar regions or frigid zones

  The areas within the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle
• The closer the latitude of a place to the equator


  The warmer the climate of that region or place
• The closer the latitude of a place to the poles


  The colder the place or region
• There is a relationship between the latitude of a place and the climate it experiences
• locating places on earth, longitude, latitude
• latitude refers to how far north or south a place is from the equator
• longitude: the angular distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich meridian, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes
• equator: a line notionally drawn on the earth equidistant from the poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.