A. Answer the following questions briefly :
1./Why do we need to locate places on Earth?
2. What do you mean by the latitude of a place?
3. What is meant by Prime Meridian?
4. Explain why there is no higher latitude other than
90 degrees North and South.
5. Explain why Lines of Longitudes are called Meridian
of Longitude.
6. State two properties of the Lines of Latitude.
7/State two properties of Lines of Longitude.
Answers
Answer:
1 - Location is very important this is because it enables us to know the precise place of an archaeological site, human settlement, town, village or city. An absolute location is a depiction of the exact site on an objective coordinate system i.e grid which mostly is the longitude and latitude on the map.
2- The latitude of a place is the angular distance of the point north or south of the equator measured in degrees. ... Latitudes are measured from 0 ° to 90° N and 0° to 90° S. The distance from the equator to 90° N covers a distance of 1/4 of the circumference of the Earth or 140,000 km
3-The prime meridian is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around the Earth. The prime meridian is arbitrary, meaning it could be chosen to be anywhere. 6 - 12+ Earth Science, Geography.
4- Latitude is the angular distance from the plane of the Equator. Latitude only has to cover 180 degrees, from the North Pole to the South Pole. All circles make a maximum angle of 900 from the plane of the Equator. Therefore the maximum, latitude is 900 N in the Northern hemisphere and 900 S in the Southern hemisphere .
5- Longitudes are known as meridians because in Geographical sense, meridians are great circles which are not parallel to each other but intersect each other at the North and the South Poles. Same stands true of the longitudes. All longitudes are great circles which meet at the Poles.
6- The length of the lines of latitudes decrease with distance from the equator.
All lines of latitude are circles parallel to the equator.
7- The distance between two consecutive longitude decreases gradually with distance from the equator.
All lines of longitude are semicircles of equal length.
Explanation:
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