So today Mr schick taught us what latitude and longitude were. Latitude is measured by parallels. Parallels are drawn parallel to the equator and at right angles of meridians. The way I remember what latitude is, latitude, latter their both parallel to the equator and on the geographic grid latitude looks like a latter. The second piece of a geographic grid is longitude. Longitude is measured by meridians. meridians are arcs drawn between the north and south poles. Now another difference is that if you stretched earth out flat parallels would be straight lines but meridians would be curved because they all intersect at the north and south poles. Both latitude and longitude help make up the geographic coordinate system the third part is elevation which is pretty self explanatory. So after that we watched a video with this weird British narrator that Mr Schick replayed the intro 3 times so we would just understand and laugh at his voice because it was just so monotone. Mr Schick also explained to us that since timezones usually revolve around countries that places that are out of a timezone but part of a country would have different time zones. Then mr Schick pulled up this pictures to explain why timezones are so weird.
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So if look the time zones aren't straight lines down the earth. They are stretched out to include full countries so half of a country try has a different time then another. But with places like the USA its kinda of hard to make one fourth of the world in one time zone but most countries have their own time zone. another neat little fact is that in Greenwich England the coordinates is zero degrees longitude because the prime meridian passes through Greenwich. Today we actually had a fulfilled class with stuff to do.
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