SS3 Mathematics

Longitude and latitude

Overview

Describing the earth as a sphere Identifying (using skeletal globe and locate (using real globe) and appreciating the followings: - North and South poles - Longitude - Latitude Meridian and - equator - Parallel of latitude - Radius of parallel of latitude - Radius of the earth. Solving problems on longitude and latitude

What you'll learn
  • Joint venture account
  • Explanation
  • Earth as a sphere
  • Identification of:
  • - North and South poles
  • - Longitudes
  • - Latitudes
  • - Small circles and great circles
  • - Meridian and equator Parallel of latitude
  • - Radius of parallel of latitude Radius of Earth.
  • Revision of: arc length of a curve
  • Calculations of distance between two points on the earth.
  • Knotical rules, time variation
Your Teacher
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Okoli N.C
  • 7 Lessons Taught
  • 4.6 Teacher Rating