When you draw both lines they cross at the location you are looking for.
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By taking a ruler and making one measurement up from the floor and one
measurement from the corner of the room, you can come up with two numbers
that exactly describe the location of any point on the entire wall.
By doing exactly the same thing on the globe, you can come up with two numbers
that exactly describe the location of any point on the entire Earth. You just have to
know where each measurement starts from. And the rulers are printed right there
on the globe for you.
Think of them as the x and y coordinates on a coordinate graph. If a geographer wants to know the exact location of a location, for example a city, they could use the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates to pinpoint the city on a map or globe.
They help geographers determine location on the globe and earth
the line of longitude helps when reading a map because it gives you the exact point of a place or location.
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absolute location
Each 'meridian' is a line of constant longitude.
Lines of latitude and longitude allows any position on the Earth to be plotted.
longitude
Most maps will show latitude and longitude lines, if not, they're ALWAYS on a globe.
Lines of latitude and longitude allow a specific point to be located any where on the world.
latitude?
lines of latitude
Each 'meridian' is a line of constant longitude.
Latitude.
Every meridian of longitude is perpendicular to every parallel of latitude, and every parallel of latitude is perpendicular to every meridian of longitude.
The lines that intercept latitude lines are lines of longitude.
Latitude and longitude
Lines of Longitude
Longitude lines go vertically and latitude lines go horizontally.
Every parallel of latitude crosses every meridian of longitude.
Lines of latitude and longitude allows any position on the Earth to be plotted.
Latitude lines run parallel to the equator and measure a location's distance north or south of the equator, while longitude lines run perpendicular to the equator and measure a location's distance east or west of the prime meridian. Latitude lines are represented by horizontal lines on maps, while longitude lines are represented by vertical lines.