What is latitude and longitude ?
What are the important of latitude and l
Longitude?
Answers
Latitude is distance north or south of the equator (an imaginary circle around the Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole) and longitude is distance east or west of the prime meridian (an imaginary line running from north to south through Greenwich, England).
1 > It locates a place on globe by making grids.
2 > It tells us about the climatic conditions of a place.
3 > It divides the whole earth in small parts.
4 > It is used while setting the time zone of a place
5 > It is used to find the time of any place
6 > It is extremely important for GPS
7 > It provides means for sailors to navigate to new continents
8 > It provides a way for specifying how east/west or north/south an object is.
9 > It used to make out the pressure conditions of any place
10 > It divides the earth into climatic zones which makes it very easy to tell about the weather of any place just by its location.
Explanation:
Latitude is the measurement of the distance of a location on the Earth from the equator. If a place is away from the equator, it receives less sunlight and a rise in latitude leads to a reduction in air pressure and a drop in latitude means that air pressure increases because of the weight of the air column.