Review

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Review

• What are the five themes of geography?
• What is the difference between absolute location
  and relative location?
• What is the difference between place and region?

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Crusader Map

• What do all good maps have? (4)

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Geography Tools

• Reading Maps and Gridlines

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Preview

• Today, you will
• Understand the purpose of gridlines.
• Be able to find the absolute location of anything
  on the earths surface.
• Be able to use any type of map to determine
  location.

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Gridlines

• Purpose of Gridlines
• Identify absolute location
• Find locations on a variety of maps

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Latitude and Longitude

• Parallels of Latitude
• Imaginary horizontal lines that divide the globe.
• Measured in degrees () N or S
• Lats are flats.
• Meridians of Longitude
• Imaginary vertical lines that divide the globe.
• Measured in () E or W
• Meridians intersect at the poles.

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Finding Gridlines
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Axes

• Equator (0 Latitude)
• Divides Northern and Southern Hemispheres
• X-Axis
• Prime Meridian (0 Longitude)
• Divides Eastern and Western Hemispheres
• Y-Axis

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Hemispheres

• Half of a sphere.

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Hemispheres

• Eastern Hemisphere 0 -180 E
• Western Hemisphere 0-180 W
• Northern Hemisphere 0-90 N
• Southern Hemisphere 0-90 S

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Hemispheres and the Grid
NE
NW
SE
SW
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Coordinates

• A method of representing a point in dimensional
  space.
• (Line of Latitude, Line of Longitude)
• Examples
• 65 N, 34 E
• 85 S, 112 W
• All locations on earthGoogle Earth

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Finding Absolute Location

• Understand your projection.
• Find you axes.
• Look at the ordered pair (e.g. 85 S, 112 W)
• Go N or S of the Equator.
• Go E or W of the Prime Meridian.

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85 S, 112 W
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Practice

• With a partner
• Complete the worksheet Latitude and Longitude.
• All students must have a completed worksheet.
• Projections