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ANSWER 1:The North Pole and the South Pole serve as the reference points on Earth.
ANSWER 2:They lie between the Tropic of Cancer and Arctic Circle in the northern and between Tropic of Capricorn and Arctic Circle in the southern hemisphere. That is between 23 degrees half minute North to 66 degrees half minute North and 23 degrees half minute South and 66 degrees half minute South latitudes.
ANSWER 3:The torrid zone receives maximum amount of sunlight because sometimes the rays directly falls on equator and the middle part of the earth gets more sunlight compared to other zones. ... The mid-day sun is exactly overhead at least once a year on all latitudes in this area. That's why it receives more amount of heat .
ANSWER 4:As the reference for GMT, the Prime Meridian at Greenwich therefore became the centre of world time and the basis for the global system of time zones. The Airy Transit Circle (telescope) became the telescope that would define the Prime Meridian of the World.
ANSWER 5:IN ANCIENT TIMES, SUN WAS THE ONLY MEANS TO TELL THE TIME. PEOPLE USED TO SEE THE PATH OF THE SUN IN THE SKY TO ESTIMATE THE TIME. THE EARTH ROTATES FROM WEST TO EAST AND COMPLETES ONE ROTATION IN 24 HOURS. ... THUS, 15 DEGREE LONGITUDE PASSES BEFORE THE SUN IN A PERIOD OF 60 MINUTES OR 1 HOUR.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION
Five characteristics of the parallels of latitudes are:
Latitude is the angular distance of a place north or south of the Equator.
There are 180 parallels of latitudes apart from the Equator.
Each parallel of latitude is a circle.
Only the Equator is a Great Circle, all the rest of the latitudes are Small Circles
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