Why are the lines of latitude called parallel of longitude
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hiiiiiii.......The first question is answerable in a real sense. And it needs to be answered in two parts. For the first, latitude is parallel because it travels east/west. Since East/West is, in a sense, relative, you can always continue traveling east or west and never reach the most easterly or westerly point.
Longitude is convergent because North and South are more or less static and absolute. You can reach a north or south "pole" and be unable to continue in a northerly or southerly direction. Therefore, all latitudinal lines meet at the poles.
If the opposite were true, we wouldn't have north and south poles, but an "East Pole" and a "West Pole." The earth would presumably be spinning on a horizonal axis, sun would rise and set from the north or south, and the east and west would be the coldest points on the earth.......
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Longitude is convergent because North and South are more or less static and absolute. You can reach a north or south "pole" and be unable to continue in a northerly or southerly direction. Therefore, all latitudinal lines meet at the poles.
If the opposite were true, we wouldn't have north and south poles, but an "East Pole" and a "West Pole." The earth would presumably be spinning on a horizonal axis, sun would rise and set from the north or south, and the east and west would be the coldest points on the earth.......
hope it helps....
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