Answer the following questions.
a) What is an equator?
b) What are latitudes?
c) What divides the Earth into two equal halves?
d) How are latitude and longitude expressed?
e) What is the latitudinal and longitudinal extension Nepal?
Answers
Answer:
a). An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.
b). The latitude of a place is the angular distance of the point north or south of the equator measured in degrees. The equator is taken as 0° latitude. Latitudes are measured from 0 ° to 90° N and 0° to 90° S.
c). Equator divides the Earth into two equal halves.
d). Latitudes and longitudes like angles are expressed in terms of degrees. It is because the earth is a sphere. Any line drawn around the earth is a circle, The latitude and the longitude tell us about the angle between the center of the earth and a given location of a place on the globe.
e). Nepal extends for about 885 km east-west along its himalayan axis and about 193 km north-south
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Answer:
a) The Earth's equator is an imaginary planetary line that is about 40,075 km long in circumference.
Explanation:
b) Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator. It is measured with 180 imaginary lines that form circles around the Earth east-west, parallel to the Equator.
c) Equator.
d) Latitude and longitude are expressed as degrees that are divided into 60 minutes. Each minute is divided into 60 seconds.
e) Nepal is a landlocked country, located in the Himalayas. It extends for about 800 kilometers east-west along its Himalayan axis and about 200 kilometers north-south.