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Getting Started1.Take out your assignment book and copy the following
homework:
Due Wednesday, September 30
Read pages 6-11 in Eastern Hemisphere Part A.
On page 11 (textbook) answer questions 1a, 1b, 3a, & 3b on looseleaf.
Get quiz signed.
2.Take out your Social Studies notebook and fill in your Table of Contents with the following information:
9/28 Global Grids 8-9
3.Look at the map Where in the World?
4.On page 8 (notebook) letter the first nine lines A-I. Write what continent each of the letters is located in.
Students will be able to explain how places on the earth are
described in terms of absolute locations.
Where in the World?
You will be given five different vocabulary words.
Discuss with your partner what you think each of these words mean.
On the sheet provided, draw a visual representation for each of the vocabulary words.
Vocabularyhemisphere - a “half sphere,” used to refer to one-half of the globe when divided into North and South or East and West
equator - circles the middle of the earth like a belt
Prime Meridian - divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres
latitude - imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator
longitude - imaginary lines that circle the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole
Where in the World?
Page 9
Exit Ticket
1. Find the letter located at (30°S,30°E). Write down that letter.
2. What 2 hemispheres is that letter located in?
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