Question

how many degrees of latitude are there between the equator and the poles? name the five important latitude.

Answer 1

While lines of latitude run across a map east-west, the point of latitude makes the n0rth-south position of a point on earth.  Lines of latitude start at 0 degrees at the equator and end a 90 degrees at the North and South Poles.  Everything north of the equator is known as the Northern Hemisphere and everything south of the equator is known as the Southern Hemisphere.

Lines of latitude are called parallels and in total there are 180 degrees of latitude.  The distance between each degree of latitude is about 69 miles (110 kilometers).  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.