2. Answer the following questions:
a. What is latitude?
b. What is longitude?
c. Differentiate between the equator and the prime meridian.
d. Differentiate between llatitude and longitude.
e. State the usefulness of latitude and longitude.
Answers
Answer:
a. latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
b. the angular distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich meridian, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object
c. The main difference between Equator and Prime Meridian is that Equator is the line circling the Earth halfway between the North and South poles while Prime Meridian is the line that runs through Greenwich, England.
d. The latitude specifies a location's distance north or south of the equator. The longitude specifies the location's distance east or west from an imaginary line connecting the North and South Poles, called the Prime Meridian.
e. 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.
Answer:
a.Latitudes correspond to the north and south geographic poles on the earth, respectively.
b.Longitude is defined in terms of meridians, which are half-circles running from pole to pole.
c.Latitude
Latitude implies the geographic coordinates that determine the distance of a point, north-south of the equator. Longitude alludes to the geographic coordinate, which identifies the distance of a point, east-west of the Prime Meridian.
It is known as parallels It is known as meridians
The length of the lines are different The length of the lines are the same
It classifies heat zones It classifies time zones
There are 180 latitude lines
Longitude
Longitude alludes to the geographic coordinate, which identifies the distance of a point, east-west of the Prime Meridian.
It is known as meridians
The length of the lines are the same
It classifies time zones
There are 360 longitude lines
d.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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