what is the significance of the lines of latitude
1. Arctic circle
2. Tropic of Cancer
3. equator
4. Tropic of Capricorn
5. Antarctic circle
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Arctic circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. It marks the northernmost point at which the center of the noon sun is just visible on the December solstice and the southernmost point at which the center of the midnight sun is just visible on the June solstice.
It is the degree of 66.5 north.
Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer is a parallel of latitude on the Earth, 23.5 degrees north of the equator. This occurs on the June solstice, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun to its maximum extent.
Equator
An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or any celestial body. It is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole, at 0 degrees latitude. An equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The Earth is widest at its Equator. The equator is also the hottest latitude.
Tropic of Capricorn
The Tropic of Capricorn is also a latitude at an angle of 23.5 degrees south. It is the southernmost latitude where the Sun can be directly overhead. Its northern equivalent is the Tropic of Cancer.
Less than 3% of the world's population lives south of it, and less than about 30% of the population of the Southern Hemisphere.
Antarctic circle
It is the present at latitude at 66°5 south of the Equator, crossing mostly the Southern Ocean. In the Antarctic Circle, all places have twenty-four hours of daylight on the Summer Solstice in December.
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