Question

Answer the following questions briefly:<br />1.How do you fix the position of a point on a sheet of graph paper?<br />2.Why are distances from reference lines measured in angles?<br />3.How are the poles of the Earth fixed?<br />4.What do you mean by the latitude of a place?<br />5.<br />How are latitudes measured?<br />6. Explain why there is no higher latitude than 90°N and 90°S.<br />7. Explain why the lines of a latitude are called the parallels of latitude.<br />8.Name five important parallels of latitude.<br />9 What are the limits of the North Temperate Zone?<br />10. Which is the reference line for measuring longitude?<br />11. What is meant by the longitude of a place?<br />12. Explain why the lines of longitude are called meridians of longitude.<br />13. State two properties of the lines of latitude.<br />14. State two properties of the lines of longitude.<br />15. The distance between two consecutive parallels of latitude is equal to about 111 km but the distance between<br />two consecutive meridians of longitude is equal to 111 km only at the Equator. Give one reason.<br />16 Explain why 1° latitude is equal to 111 km throughout whereas 1º longitude in terms of distance varies.<br />17. State the rate of change of time with longitude.<br />18. How is the local time of a place fixed?<br />19. Why is Standard Time considered necessary?<br />20. Why do some countries have many time zones?<br />21. What is the International Date Line?<br />22. Mention two places where the International Date Line deviates from 180° longitude.<br />23. What is a Great Circle?<br />24. How is a Great Circle useful?<br />25. Except for the Equator, other parallels of latitude are not Great Circles. Why?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />pls tell me i will them brainliest​

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1.In the past area we prevailing with regards to fixing the situation of the light. How would we speak to this situation on a piece of paper?

The standard A4 size paper that we use has a width of 21 cm and a length of 29 cm. This is appeared in the fig.2.6 underneath:

Be that as it may, we need to plot 40 cm and 90 cm. Clearly, we can't check these separations on an A4 size paper. So we utilize a technique known as 'scaling'. It is done as follows:

2.Since the latitudes and the longitudes are actually points of intersection with the Earth's surface from the center of the Earth, the distances from reference lines are measured in angles. This gives us more accuracy in measuring the distance.

3.The poles of the Earth are fixed by the axis of Earth's rotation. The Earth rotates on the Geographic North and Geographic South Poles. The Geographic North and South Poles are located where lines of longitude (meridian) converge in the North.

4.In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface. Latitude is an angle (defined below) which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles.

5.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.  Each parallel measures one degree north or south of the Equator, with 90 degrees north of the Equator and 90 degrees south of the Equator.

6.The latitude of an arbitrary point is the angle between the equatorial plane and the radius to that point. By this definition, the latitude of north or south pole would be 90 degrees w.r.t. the equator. Hence no higher angle than 90 degrees north or south.

7.Circles of latitude are often called parallels because they are parallel to each other; that is, any two circles are always the same distance apart. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude.

8.The five major parallels of latitudes from north to south are called: Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and the Antarctic Circle. On a maps where the orientation of the map is either due north or due south, latitude appears as horizontal lines.

9.The north, temperate zone extends from 23.5° north to the Arctic Circle, 66.5° north latitude.

10.Prime Meridian

Longitude lines are a numerical way to show/measure how far a location is east or west of a universal vertical line called the Prime Meridian. This Prime Meridian line runs vertically, north and south, right over the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich England, from the North Pole to the South Pole.

11.Longitude is the measurement east or west of the prime meridian. Longitude is measured by imaginary lines that run around the Earth vertically (up and down) and meet at the North and South Poles. These lines are known as meridians. ... The distance around the Earth measures 360 degrees.

12.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.

13.Lines of Latitude and their two characteristics are as follows: Every parallel of the latitudes make the full circle, and this is one of the most important characteristics of the lines of latitude. When it comes to the lines of latitude, they perpetually drew at an angular range with respect to the equator.

14.he meridians are drawn vertically.

the meridians are used to determine local time and to mark time zones.

meridians are not parallel to each other. All meridians meet at the poles.

every meridian is a semi circle.

if drawn 1 degree apart, there would be 360 meridians.

15.they meet at both poles so farthest distance between longitudes is at equator.

16.The range of the Equator is equivalent to the perimeter of the Earth that is 40, 077 km. Since the Equator is a large circle and the perimeter of a circle is equals to 3600, 10 angular length is roughly equal to 111 km. In simple terms, all the lines of longitude converge at the north and south poles.

17.The rate of change of time per longitude is 4 minutes . As the degree of longitude increases time also increases.

18.Local time of a place is fixed with refference to the apparent movement of the Sun. Example :- where the sun is over head in the sky it is mid day or 12 noon.

19.Standard Time is needed because, throughout human history, people have apparently marked the moment when the sun is at its zenith as the midpoint of the day, and measured backward and forward from there — “Noon” in English.