1. Absolute and Relative Location Latitude and Longitude Hemispheres

2. Warm up:
Type 1: In at least three lines, completely discuss how a person uses lines of longitude and latitude to determine a specific location (What do you do first? What are the step? What directions do you go? Can you give an example?)

3. Absolute and Relative Location
Why is “location” important?

4. Absolute Location What is it? the exact point where a place is located
(often given in terms of latitude and longitude)

5. Absolute Location Examples:
Havertown, Pennsylvania is located at degrees north (latitude), degrees west (longitude)
Haverford Middle School is located at Darby Road Havertown, PA

6. where a place is in relation to other places
Relative Location
What is it?
where a place is in relation to other places
Examples?

7. Examples: New York is north of Pennsylvania.
Relative Location
Examples: New York is north of Pennsylvania.

8. Relative Location
The Haverford Middle School football field and track is south of the middle school.

9. My house is the third house on the left.
Relative Location
My house is the third house on the left.

10. Vocabulary: Relative Location
Relative location describes where something is located in relation to other things.
My house is located 2 miles from the mall. (distance)
Our school is located one block over from Rock n Roll Tacos. (landmarks)
Dallas is 3.5 hours from Austin. (time)
Texas is south of Oklahoma. (direction)

11. Describe the relative location of Havertown, Pennsylvania using direction. Remember to use distance, landmarks, time, and direction
Havertown

12. We do…
You are going to work with your table partners to evaluate and determine the examples of relative and absolute location.

13. You do…
You will complete the exit ticket to evaluate and determine the relative/absolute locations.

14. Latitude:
imaginary lines that run east to west (parallel to the equator)
also called parallels
There are 90 degrees north of the equator and 90 degrees south of the equator

15. Latitude:

16. Longitude:
imaginary lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole (measuring distance east or west of the prime meridian)
also called meridians
There are 180 degrees east of the prime meridian and 180 degrees west of the prime meridian.

17. Longitude:

18. Latitude and Longitude

19. A hemisphere is half of Earth.
Hemispheres
A hemisphere is half of Earth.
The equator (0 degrees latitude) divides Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
The Prime Meridian (0 degrees longitude) divides Earth into the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.