Longitude and Latitude

Latitude

Longitude

Prime Meridian

• Set in Greenwich, England

Finding Your Coordinates

What is the longitude and latitude of Quilcene?

Extreme Points of the Continental U.S.Cape Alava, WA - westernmost

Northwest Angle, MN - northernmost

Sail Rock, ME- easternmost

Key West, FL - southernmost

Extremes of the 50 U.S. States

Time Zones Earth is divided into 24 slices to account for the

24 hours in a day

Each Country Decides Its Own Time Zone Boundaries

• Some general rules include;

• Time zones can not split up a community

• Try to keep media markets together

Some countries have crazy time zones!• China should have 5 time zones, but the entire country is in

the same one. That means the sun sets 5 hours earlier in the east than the west.

• India, Iran, and Afghanistan

are on ½ hour times.

• Some Australian areas are on ½ hour

International Date Line• The location where the new calendar date begins

• Exactly opposite the prime meridian