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National Council for Geographic Education 2006 Club Activities - Second Year - First Month

Part 1: Using and Questions Use an atlas or world map to answer these questions. 1.What language would you hear spoken at 25° N / 45° E? 1. Arabic 2.What islands are located at 0° N / 92°W?2. Galapagos 3.What national capital is located at 56° N / 37° E?3. Moscow 4. Do people speak Spanish or Italian at 41° N / 4°W?4. Spanish 5.Would you be more likely to see flamingoes or puffins at 26° N / 80°W?5. Flamingoes 6.What country, referred to as "Land Down Under" is at 25° S / 130°E?6. 7.What country would you be visiting at 20° N / 100°W?7. Mexico 8.Would you be more likely to see llamas or camels at 13° S / 72°W?8. Llamas 9. If you were at 42° N / 13° E would you more likely eat pasta or borscht?9. Pasta 10. At 70° S / 70°W would you find penguins or polar bears?10. Penguins (Bears=N, Penguins=S) 11. If you are at 1° S / 37° E what city are you near? 11. Nairobi, Kenya 12. If you are at 35° N / 140° E what language would you need to know?12. Japanese 13. If you are at 27° N / 78° E, would you see the Eiffel Tower or the 13. Taj Mahal? 14. The mouth of which river is located at 0° / 50°W?14. Amazon River 15.What would you probably use to eat dinner with at 30° N / 120° E?15. Chopsticks 16. At 23° S / 47°Wyou are in what city and country?16. Sao Paulo, 17.What lies south of the island nation located at 8° N / 82° E?17. Indian Ocean 18.Would you be more likely to see a lemur or a panda at 20° S / 45° E?18. Lemur (Madagascar) 19.What national capital is located at 40° N / 116° E?19. 20.Which European capital city lies closest to the ?20. , of which Greenwich is a suburb 21.What island country is found at 42°S / 172°E?21. 22.What famous mountain is located at 28°N / 87°E?22. Mt. Everest 23.What desert is located at 23°S / 24°E?23. Kalahari Desert 24.What cape is located at 56°S / 67°W?24. Cape Horn 25.What strait is located at 64°N / 169°W?25. Bering Strait http://www.ncge.org/resources/geoclub/activities/UsingLatitudeandLongitudeActivity.pdf

Part 2: Antipode Questions The antipode is the point on the opposite side of the from another point - the place you'd end up if you were able to dig directly through the earth. An antipode is found by converting the latitude and longitude. Take the latitude of the place you want to find the antipode of and convert it to the opposite hemisphere. For example, Memphis is located at approximately 35° N latitude. The antipode of Memphis is 35° S latitude. Take the longitude of the place you want to find the antipode of and subtract it from 180. Antipodes are always 180° of longitude away. Memphis is located at approximately 90°Wlongitude so we take 180 - 90 = 90. This new 90° we convert to degrees East and we have our location of Memphis' antipode: 35°S / 90°E, in the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia. Find the antipode for your town or community. First, get your latitude and longitude. See the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) website, http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=140:1:18429877167961255332 to find your latitude and longitude. (CSUN is at about at 34°N / 119°W)

1) Using the steps above, what is the antipode for CSUN? 34°S / 61°E (180-119=61)

2) Is the antipode on land or in the ocean? ocean

3) Why might the antipodes for locations be more likely to be in the ocean? There is more than twice as much ocean as land on Earth in general (70% to 30%) and most of that land surface is concentrated in the northern hemisphere, so the southern hemisphere is dominated by ocean.

Sometimes antipodes are close to other cities. Locate the city that is closest to the antipode for:

4) , 35°S / 58°W: antipode = 35°N / 122°E: closest cities = Qingdao and ,

5) Bogotá, 05ºN / 74ºW: antipode = 05ºS / 106ºE: closest city = ,