Question

B. Answer the following questions in not more than 20 words. 1. What is the equator? 2. What is the prime meridian? 3. How are meridians numbered? 4. When would the local time of a place A be ahead of the local time of a place B? 5. What is the importance of the 8272 E meridian in India?​

Answer 1

Equator: It is an imaginary line drawn midway between the North and South Poles. It divides the Earth into two equal parts, the North Hemisphere and the South Hemisphere.

Answer 2

Answer:

a line notionally drawn on the earth equidistant from the poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.

a corresponding line on a planet or other body.

ASTRONOMY

short for celestial equator.

Meridians of longitude are imaginary half-circles running from the North Pole to the South Pole. They are sometimes called lines of longitude. ... Meridians are numbered east and west from the prime meridian