What is latitude question and answer?
Answer: One of the imaginary circles parallel to the Equator is called latitude.
What are the 7 important latitudes?
Important lines of latitude:
- the equator (0°)
- the Tropic of Cancer (23.5° north)
- the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5° south)
- the Arctic circle (66.5° north)
- the Antarctic circle (66.5° south)
- the North Pole (90° north)
- the South Pole (90° south)
What are the 4 types of latitudes?
The five major latitude lines are the equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
- The Arctic Circle.
- The Antarctic Circle.
- The Equator.
- The Tropic of Cancer.
- The Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the 3 types of latitudes?
Three latitudes are used in this way: the geodetic, geocentric and parametric latitudes are used in geodetic coordinates, spherical polar coordinates and ellipsoidal coordinates respectively.
How many parallels are there in total?
Explanation: The Earth is divided by the Equator into two equal halves known as the Northern Hemisphere (with 90 parallels) and the Southern Hemisphere (with 90 parallels). These 180 parallels along with the Equator make a total of 181 parallels across the globe.
What are latitudes for Class 6?
Latitudes are imaginary lines that run from west to east, ranging from zero to 90 degrees. Another imaginary line on the globe that divides it into two equal parts at zero degree latitude is called the equator. The equator divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
What are the 2 main lines of longitude?
1. Prime Meridian = Longitude 0o (Greenwich Meridian). 2. International Date Line (Longitude 180o).
What is the main line of latitude?
Equator
What are the Major Lines of Latitude (or Parallels)? The five major parallels of latitudes from north to south are called: Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and the Antarctic Circle.
What are the 5 circles of latitude?
The five major circles of latitude are, starting from the North Pole and finishing at the South Pole; the Arctic Circle, the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator, the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
Which is the biggest latitude?
The Equator
The Equator is the longest circle of latitude and is the only circle of latitude which also is a great circle.
How many meridians of latitude are there?
360 meridians
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 are the uses of latitudes?
Latitude and longitude make up the grid system that helps us identify absolute, or exact, locations on the Earth’s surface. You can use latitude and longitude to identify specific locations. Latitude and longitude are also helpful in identifying landmarks.
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