Transcript Lesson 5: Finding Places Using Longitude and Latitude

Finding Places
Using Longitude
and Latitude
TLW locate places using
Longitude and Latitude
Recall: Grid
Finding Places
109°W 108°W 107°W 106°W 105°W 104°W 103°W 102°W
Find 40 ° N Latitude
What city is located at
this latitude?
41°N
Boulder
40°N
What line of Longitude
is closest to this city?
Denver
Grand Junction
Mt. Elbert
39°N
Delta
Pikes Peak
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
38°N
Durango
Latitude is always
written first:
37°N
How would you write the
coordinates correctly for
the city of Boulder?
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Which line of
Latitude runs near
Pikes Peak?
Which line of
Longitude runs
near Pikes Peak?
Write the correct
location for Pikes
Peak using
Longitude and
Latitude
What city is near
39°N Latitude,
108°W Longitude?
109°W 108°W 107°W 106°W 105°W 104°W 103°W 102°W
41°N
Boulder
40°N
Grand Junction Mt. Elbert
Denver
39°N
Delta
Pikes Peak
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
38°N
Durango
37°N
Answers
1. 39°N
2. 105°W
3. 39° N Latitude, 41°N
105° W Longitude
40°N
4. Delta
109°W 108°W 107°W 106°W 105°W 104°W 103°W 102°W
Boulder
Grand Junction Mt. Elbert
Denver
39°N
Delta
What is the coordinates
of the City of Durango?
108° W Longitude
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
38°N
Durango
37½° N Latitude,
Pikes Peak
37°N