Warm-up
You’re lost in the woods with an extraordinarily irritating person. This is torture and you do not know what is worse: the person you are with or your impending doom of dying in the woods...until you find a survival kit! What are some things that you would like to be in that kit to save your life and/or get you back to your home?!

Survival and you!

Objectives

• Identify latitude and longitude.
• Find points on the map using the above.
• Apply what we learn to map questions.

Prayer

Anticipatory Set:
What if…..you found a piece of paper marking the coordinates of a ranger station. The coordinates are as follows: 15° N 30° W.

Latitude
Latitude is the angular distance of any object from the equator measured in degrees.Objects are either north or south of the equator.

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Longitude
The lines running vertically around the Earth are called longitude. These lines are called meridians, and measure how far east or west an object is.

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Prime Meridian
The prime meridian is 0 degrees longitude.

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