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F. Give very short answers for the following questions.
1. The North Pole always points towards which star?
2. What are the lines of latitudes also called?
3. Which parallels are not circles?
4. Which is the largest parallel on the globe?
5. The Arctic Circle is located in which hemisphere?
6. What are the lines of longitudes also called as?
7. What is the other name given to the 0° meridian?
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Answered by anushka714
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1) If you followed this axis out into space from the northern hemisphere on Earth, it would point toward a particular star in the sky. We call that star the "North Star" since it sits in the direction that the spin axis from the northern hemisphere of Earth points. At present, the star known as Polaris is the North Star.

2) The lines from pole to pole are lines of constant longitude, or meridians. The circles parallel to the equator are lines of constant latitude, or parallels

3) Equator is east-west line circle. When the equator cut into two equal it will be northern and southern hemisphere. Parallels never meet any point. It is the circle position of longitude.

4) The longest latitude is the equator, at about 40,075 km (about 24,901 miles). It is longest because its center is the center of Earth. All other lines of latitude are centered around Earth's rotational axis at a narrower part of the planet.

5) The Arctic Circle is the southernmost latitude in the Northern Hemisphere at which the centre of the sun can remain continuously above or below the horizon for twenty-four hours; as a result, at least once each year at any location within the Arctic Circle the sun is visible at local midnight, and at least once.

6) 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. Each meridian measures one arcdegree of longitude.

7) The meridian that runs through Greenwich, England, is internationally accepted as the line of 0 degrees longitude, or prime meridian. The antimeridian is halfway around the world, at 180 degrees. It is the basis for the International Date Line.

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