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How are longitude and latitude lines used to locate points on earth?
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They are used to locate a certain place on a map.
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What reference lines are used to locate points on earth?
Latitude and Longitude
What is the latitude and longitude of Gemini?
The system of latitudes and longitudes is a method used to locate points on the Earth's surface. There is a similar coordinate system used to locate objects in the sky, but it's not latitude/longitude.
Does using latitude and longitude help locate a place on the earth?
Yes.
Does using latitude and longitude helps locate and place on earth?
Yes.
How are the lines of latitude and longitude used to locate points on Earth's surface?
The lines of latitude provide vertical (north-south) coordinates on a map or globe. Lines of longitude provide horizontal (east-west) coordinates. The defined geographical point is where the latitude line intersects the longitude line.
What Are the purposes of the lines of latitude and longitude?
To locate any spot on the Earth's surface.
How do you locate a place on the Earth's surface?
By Longitude, Latitude, minutes, seconds. Or use Google Earth.
What is the latitude and longitude of mars?
"Longitude" and "latitude" are the coordinates used primarily in the system of locating points on the earth's surface. Even when that generalization doesn't hold, they're only applicable to the location of points on the surface of another sphere. There's no way to use that kind of system to locate a planet.
How do latitude and longitude lines help to locate places on earth?
It is like coordinates all around the earth
Where do longitude and latitude lines meet?
Every point on Earth has a latitude and a longitude. No two points have the same set of two numbers.
The equator is to latitude as which of the following is to longitude?
The equator is the locus of all points on Earth whose latitude is zero. The locus of all points on Earth whose longitude is zero is the Prime Meridian.
What longitude and latitude is the prime meridian?
The Prime Meridian is a line made up of all the points on Earth that have zero longitude. There is one of those points at every possible latitude.
