1. What is an earth grid?
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Answer:
In order to locate correctly each and every place on the surface of the Earth, a network of horizontal and vertical lines is drawn on the globe. This network of systematic lines is called the 'Earth Grid'. ... The point, where the lines intersect, pinpoints the location of a place.
Explanation:
In order to locate correctly each and every place on the surface of the Earth, a network of horizontal and vertical lines is drawn on the globe. This network of systematic lines is called the 'Earth Grid'. ... The word 'Hemisphere' means half of a sphere or a globe.
Much of Earth's grid system is based on the location of the North Pole, South Pole, and Equator. The poles are an imaginary line running from the axis of Earth's rotation. The plane of the equator is an imaginary horizontal line that cuts the earth into two equal halves.