New Worksheet - Geography - Latitude

Location: Latitude

1. Define: latitude, north latitude, south latitude.

2. What places on earth have the lowest possible latitude? Highest possible?

3. What symbol is used to indicate latitude?

4. Find the latitude of the following: Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole.

5. What is the specific latitude of New Kensington? Name two other cities in about the same latitude.

6. One degree of latitude equals approximately 70 miles (exact 69.172). How many miles north of the equator is New Kensington?

7. Latitude range: Between what two parallels of latitude do the following countries and continents lie?
United States, British Isles, South America, New Guinea, Australia, Greenland, Japan, Russia, Italy, China, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico

8. What is the latitude of the following cities? Use a map of the United States.
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland (Oregon), Detroit, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, Memphis (Tennessee), Springfield (Illnois), and Baltimore


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