Your street name and house number furnish your absolute location. Latitude and longitude provide absolute location for a place on the globe. We can locate places on the globe by determining where lines on latitude and longitude cross.
For instance, New Orleans, Louisiana is approximately 30N (latitude) and 90W (longitude). Mark X on New Orleans on your globe.
Absolute Location
In the following activity, match the cities with the correct latitude and longitude.
1. San Francisco, California
_____ 35S, 56W
2. Perth, Australia
_____ 7N, 80E
3. Moscow, Russia
_____ 56N, 38E
4. Colombo, Sri Lanka
_____ 32S, 116E
5. Montevideo, Uruguay
_____ 38N, 122W
Find and mark the following locations on your globe. Write the item number where you find these latitudes and longitudes on the globe. All These Locations are capitals of nations.
Item #
Latitude
Longitude
Location Name
6.
42N
13E
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7.
59N
18E
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8.
16S
48W
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9.
39N
77W
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10.
40N
116E
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11.
34S
18E
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12.
29N
77E
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13.
19N
99W
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Lesson 8 - Locating Places (continued)
Have the students write a sentence describing the absolute location of a place.
For example, "Rome, Italy" is located forty-two degrees north of the Equator and thirteen degrees east of the Prime Meridian. Key descriptive phrases are provided after each question.
14. Stockholm, Sweden - 59N, 18E
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15. Brasilia, Brazil - 16S, 48W
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16. Washington, D.C. - 39N, 77W
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