Question

1. Name five important parallels of latitude.
2. What is the prime meridian? Why is it important?
3. Give two differences between parallels and meridians.
4. Why do places on different meridians have a time difference?
5. How do parallels and meridians help us locate a place?​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer:

1)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.

2) The prime meridian separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere. Halfway around the world, at 180 degrees longitude, is the International Date Line. The prime meridian is the line of 0 longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around the Earth

3) Parallels run from east to west and never intersect with each other whereas meridians run from north to south and intersect at the north and south poles. This is the key difference between parallels and meridians.

4) Since the earth rotates from west to east, the places east of Greenwich are ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and those to the west are behind it. All the places located on a particular meridian or a particular longitude have the same local time.

5) They are imaginary lines drawn around earth. These lines runs from east to west direction and each line are parallel to each other. They are used to find out positions of East-west form a grid on earth's surface which is formed by the longitudes.

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