Answer the following question in one line1) what are parallels of latitudes 2)what does the Earth look? what is it's shape? 3) what is a globe? what are it's types. 4) Define local time.
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1. All of the imaginary circles parallel to the Equator are called parallels of latitudes.
2. Since the Earth is flattened at the poles and bulges at the Equator, geodesy represents the figure of the Earth as an oblate spheroid. The oblate spheroid, or oblate ellipsoid, is an ellipsoid of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its shorter axis.
3. A globe is the model of the earth It's type are Terrestrial and spherical
4. time at a particular place as measured from the sun's transit over the meridian at that place, defined as noon.
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