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Every position on the Earth has a latitude and a longitude measured in degrees. Changing the latitude while keeping the same longitude means you are moving north or south along a meridian. On the other hand changing the longitude but not the latitude means that you move east/west along a parallel of latitude.
Lines of latitude are called 'small circles' (except the equator) because they get smaller and smaller at higher latitudes, but they are always parallel, so they are parallels of latitude.
Lines of longitude are 'great circles' because they always lie in a plane that goes through the Earth's centre, and they are called meridians. Your personal meridian at this moment is a great circle that contains you, the north and south poles, and the centre of the Earth.
Get an onion and mark a small 'x' on it, then cut it in two at the 'x' making sure to cut it through its north and south poles as well. The cut plane marks the meridian of the 'x'.
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∙ 10y ago- The line that run east to west are callded parallel of latitude. 2. the line that run north to south are called meridian of longitude. MY NAME IS CRYSTAL N.DEAN
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When a latitude is named, a parallel of latitude is an imaginary line on the
surface of the Earth formed of all points that have that same latitude.
When a longitude is named, a parallel of longitude is an imaginary line on the
surface of the Earth formed of all points that have that same longitude.
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∙ 14y agoThe main difference is that they are perpendicular to each other. Otherwise all lines of latitude are parallel and all lines of longitude intercect at each pole.
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Which one line is parallel latitude or longitude?
All 'lines' of latitude are parallel to all others.No meridian of longitude is parallel to any others.-- All 'lines' of latitude are parallel to all others.-- No meridian of longitude is parallel to any other one.
What is another name for a line in longitude and latitude?
A line of constant longitude is often called a "meridian". A line of constant latitude is often called a "parallel".
When lines of longitide and latitude intersect they form?
A meridian of longitude and a parallel of latitude are perpendicular at their intersection, forming a right angle.
Do the longitudinal lines run parallel to the Tropic of Capricorn?
The Tropic of Capricorn is a parallel of latitude. Every meridian of longitude intersects it perpendicularly.
Is 120 degrees west longitude parallel to the prime meridian?
Meridians are not parallel. They join at the poles. Parallels of latitude is a common phrase. Meridians of longitude look parallel on the the map, but they're not on the globe.
Lines of latitude and lines of longitude are perpendicular to?
Every meridian of longitude is perpendicular to every parallel of latitude, and every parallel of latitude is perpendicular to every meridian of longitude.
Which one line is parallel latitude or longitude?
All 'lines' of latitude are parallel to all others.No meridian of longitude is parallel to any others.-- All 'lines' of latitude are parallel to all others.-- No meridian of longitude is parallel to any other one.
Do latitude lines ever touch longitude lines?
Every parallel of latitude crosses every meridian of longitude.
Is latitude a meridian?
No, longitude is a meridian, not latitude.
What is another name for a line in longitude and latitude?
A line of constant longitude is often called a "meridian". A line of constant latitude is often called a "parallel".
When lines of longitide and latitude intersect they form?
A meridian of longitude and a parallel of latitude are perpendicular at their intersection, forming a right angle.
Where latitude and longitude lines intersect?
We're not sure what the question is getting at. Every meridian of constant longitude intersects every parallel of constant latitude, and vice versa.
Do the longitudinal lines run parallel to the Tropic of Capricorn?
The Tropic of Capricorn is a parallel of latitude. Every meridian of longitude intersects it perpendicularly.
Is the tropic of cancer a meridian of longitude?
No. It's a parallel of latitude, roughly 23.5 degrees north of the equator.
What Two lines that can be used to locate any point on the earth's surface are meridian and parallel?
longitude and latitude
Is the line that marks the tropic of Capricorn a parallel or a meridian?
Parallel of latitude, as is the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator Meridians of longitude run north-south, like the IDL or Greenwich Meridian
Is the meridian longitude or latitude?
Every point on a meridian has the same longitude.
