Which oceans are in the Southern Hemisphere?

Which oceans are in the Southern Hemisphere?

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth south of the Equator, containing 80.9% water (20% more than the Northern Hemisphere) from four oceans, including the Indian, South Atlantic, Southern, and South Pacific).

In which direction the Indian Ocean is located?

The Indian Ocean is the smallest of all oceans (including the Southern Ocean). It has a north-south extent of 9600 km from Antarctica to the inner Bay of Bengal and spans 7800 km in east-west direction between southern Africa and western Australia.

What are the 6 hemispheres?

Any circle drawn around the Earth divides it into two equal halves called hemispheres. There are generally considered to be four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western….Vocabulary.

Term	Part of Speech	Definition
climate	noun	all weather conditions for a given location over a period of time.

What hemisphere do we live in?

What hemispheres do we live in? We live in North America, so we live in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

Where do all 4 hemispheres meet?

Kiribati Islands

What has 180 degrees in each hemisphere?

Longitude has 180 degrees in each hemisphere of the globe. Hemisphere is defined as half of a sphere globe. Longitude lines run north-south and mark the position east-west of a point. Lines of longitude are known as meridians.

How many meridians are on the globe?

There are 360 meridians- 180 to the east and 180 to the west of the Prime Meridian. The meridians in the Eastern Hemisphere are marked as ‘E’ and meridians in the Western Hemisphere are marked as ‘W’.

What is the earth’s meridian?

Meridian, imaginary north–south line on the Earth’s surface that connects both geographic poles; it is used to indicate longitude. The 40th meridian, for example, has a longitude of 40° E or 40° W.