Prime Meridian is taken to be passing from Greenwich near London which is considered zero degree longitude. The meridian just opposite to the Prime Meridian 0 apart is called International date line.
International Date Line passes through central Pacific Ocean. International Date Line is not straight like other meridians as it is drawn to avoid passing through major landmasses on a single island. Straight line would have resulted in two different dates on one a single island which would become quite inconvenient in use.
Longitudes are not parallel like latitudes and they converge on poles. Latitude is an angle which ranges from o degrees at the equator to 90 degrees north to south at the poles. Latitudes is used together with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the earth. The longitudes and latitudes intersect at any place , the inner angles of grid more than right angle 2 and less than 90 degrees 2.
O riginally Answered: Why are the latitudes parallel where longitudes are not? It is because the earth is mostly a sphere so there is no way the lines of longitude can be parallel. There are actually two way they can be parallel. All meridians meet at the North and South Poles. Longitude is related to latitude, the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator.
Lines of latitude are called parallels. All lines of longitude are measured from the prime meridian. It is different from the measurement of a mile that we use on land, which is sometimes called a statute mile. A statute mile is feet, but a nautical mile is Although they are very close the difference is very important, because one minute of latitude is equal to one nautical mile. Who invented the concept of latitude and longitude? Name three countries that are found along the equator.
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