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- 1 What is the name of the place at the very bottom of the globe?
- 2 What city is opposite on the globe?
- 3 What country is on the opposite side of the world?
- 4 What is at the top and bottom of the globe?
- 5 What is opposite the US on the globe?
- 6 What is opposite India on the globe?
- 7 What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
- 8 What are the letters on a National Geographic Map?
- 9 Where is the second globe in Shakespeare’s Globe?
- 10 What was the name of the supercontinent that incorporated all landmasses?
What is the name of the place at the very bottom of the globe?
Antarctica. The bottom of the world.
What city is opposite on the globe?
The direct opposite location in the world from New York City is the center of the Indian Ocean….An error has occurred.
| Location (City or Region) | Opposite Side Of The World |
|---|---|
| Whangarei, New Zealand | Tangier, Morocco |
| Wuhai, China | Valdivia, Chile |
| Wuhu, China | Rafaela, Argentina |
| Xi’an, China | Santiago |
What is the name of the imaginary east and west lines on the globe?
meridians
Longitude is the measurement east or west of the prime meridian. Longitude is measured by imaginary lines that run around the Earth vertically (up and down) and meet at the North and South Poles. These lines are known as meridians.
What country is on the opposite side of the world?
In the Northern Hemisphere, “the Antipodes” may refer to Australia and New Zealand, and Antipodeans to their inhabitants. Geographically, the antipodes of Britain and Ireland are in the Pacific Ocean, south of New Zealand.
What is at the top and bottom of the globe?
The axis is the rod or shaft at the center of the globe. It represents the imaginary line around which the earth rotates or spins. At the two ends of the axis are the North Pole at the top and the South Pole at the bottom.
What is the North Pole called?
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole. The North Pole is at the center of the Northern Hemisphere.
What is opposite the US on the globe?
From anywhere in the continental United States, the exact opposite is somewhere in the Indian Ocean—between Australia and Africa. The map superimposes the inverse globe on top of itself to illustrate antipodes—the diametrically opposite point from any place on Earth.
What is opposite India on the globe?
The country which lies opposite to India is America.
What is the name of the imaginary lines that run north to south?
Meridians. Imaginary lines that run north and south on a map from pole to pole. Meridians express degrees of longitude, or how far a place is away from the prime meridian. The prime meridian runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
The Equator
Powered by. Any circle drawn around the Earth divides it into two equal halves called hemispheres. There are generally considered to be four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western. The Equator, or line of 0 degrees latitude, divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What are the letters on a National Geographic Map?
On maps showing greater detail, the grid is often given numbers and letters. The boxes made by the grid may be called A, B, C, and so on across the top of the map, and 1, 2, 3, and so on across the left side. In the map’s index, a park ’s location might be given as B4.
Where does the Earth come out on the other side?
An antipodal point it is often called an antipode (Wikipedia). The Most of Europeans and Americans believe that if you dig a hole, in a straight line through the center of the Earth, you would come out on the other side right in China.
Where is the second globe in Shakespeare’s Globe?
This engraving of Bankside, made in 1644, shows the tiled roof and large tiring house and stage roof (like an upside-down W) of the second Globe. In this picture the labels were swapped around. The Globe is actually on the left and the baiting arena on the right. Did you know? No-one was harmed when the first Globe burned down.
What was the name of the supercontinent that incorporated all landmasses?
Pangea, also spelled Pangaea, in early geologic time, a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth. The land on Earth is constantly moving.