Question

Q1. Write the Features of "Parallels of Latitudes".​

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

Answer 2

Answer:

• The latitudes are horizontal imaginary lines that run east and west across the globe.
• These lines are parallel to each other and are of equal distance to each other and hence are called parallels of latitude.
• The largest latitude is called the equator