Latitude and Longitude
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Senior High (10-12)
- Subjects: Geography
- Produced By: Classroom Video
- Year: 2002
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
- Running Time: 17m
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The video examines Earth as a sphere, it defines latitude and longitude and explores how this global referencing system is applied. The video follows the crew of a 30,000 ton container ship as they navigate their way around the globe. Subject areas covered include: great circles and small circles; latitude and longitude defined; finding locations; the relevance of zero longitude and why it passes through Greenwich; why the Equator is zero degrees Latitude; defines the distance in kilometers between degrees of longitude and why minutes and seconds must be used to describe locations with greater accuracy; how the shortest distance between sea ports is along great circles; how the meter and nautical mile is determined as a unit of measurement; using GPS receivers.