Honors Class Notes 9.18

Thanks to my student note takers for compiling the notes below during class.

Latitude and Longitude Notes

Latitude:

1. goes East and West
2. they measure North and south
3. the Equator (0 degrees) is the center that divides the North and South Hemisphere
4. you’ll never have a line of Latitude over 90 degrees that measures from the Equator

Longitude:

1. Prime meridian is 0 degree line and 180 degree line   splits the Earth into the East and West hemisphere
2. you’ll never have more than 180 degrees measured from the Prime meridian of 0 degrees to 180 degree line of the Prime Meridian
3. the lines go North and South

-By combining Longitude and Latitude, any location can be found

- Latitude always comes first

- and it always starts with N or W then E or W when writing coordinates

- every location is in two hemispheres

- 1 degree equals 60 minutes  or 1 minute is 1/60 of a degree

- use minutes when the location is not exactly on Longitude/Latitude line

- the world rotates 360 degrees in 24 hours

- the world has 24 time zones

- there is a 1 hour time difference every 15 degrees

- Greenwich, England is the logical starting point for time zones

- when you move East the time increases you lose time, but when you go West time decreases and you gain time