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Every "line" of constant longitude joins the north and south poles, so the lines
"run" north and south.
Longitude numbers range from zero to 180 degrees east and from zero 180 degrees
west. So all together, there are 360 degrees of longitude, which is exactly what you
need if you want to use longitude to measure any place all around the Earth.
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Is Warsaw east or west of 20E longitude?
All the Warsaws in the US are far west of it. Warsaw, Poland is a few degrees east of it.
How far you are east or west?
You can measure east and west using longitude
What imaginary line on the globe do longitude lines measure?
Longitude lines measure how far (in degrees) you are East or West of the Prime Meridian (which is a longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England and is designated as 0° longitude).
What does lines of longitude measure?
Lines of longitude measure how far something is east or west of the Prime Meridian.
How far east can you go before you're heading west?
0 degrees longitude is the dividing line between the eastern and western hemisphere. This is also the intl date line.
What tells how far east or west of the prime meridian a place is located?
Longitude
What lines measure how far east or west a location is from the Prime Meridian?
Longitude
What does the degrees of longitude tell you?
Degrees of longitude tell us how far east of west of the Prime Meridian a location is.
What is the diferacne betwen latitude and longitude?
Latitude of a place is the measure of how far north or south it is from the equator. Longitude of a place is the measure of how far east or west it is from a line on the earth that's accepted as the starting line. With those two numbers, you can describe the location of every point on earth.
What does longitude do?
It tells you how far east or west you are from an imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole and that passes through Greenwich, near London, England. You get up to 180 degrees east and 180 degrees west. Sydney in Australia is 151° East.
Is longitude north south east or west?
Lines of longitude run north-south from pole to pole. They are an angular measure of how far east or west you are of the prime meridean which runs, north-south, through Greenwich, England.
Is longitude horizontal or vertical?
The lines of longitude are vertical; longitude measures the horizontal distance from 0 degrees longitude. Here is a mnemonic that helps me: Latitude sounds a little like 'ladder-tude', and the rungs of a ladder are horizontal. I picture myself 'stepping up or down' the lines of ladder-tude, and this moves me farther north or farther south. That leaves vertical for longitude. While the lines of longitude are drawn from north to south, their locations measure a parameter that changes from east to west; longitude tells you how far east or west you are (in degrees, not distance) from the prime meridian (zero degrees longitude). Lines of latitude are drawn from east to west, and they measure how far north or south you are. So running the risk of confusing you, the "concept" of longitude (what is your position east/west of the prime meridian) is really horizontal in nature. This can be a little hard to grasp. Draw a line on a piece of paper; make the line exactly one inch from the left margin. You have drawn the line 'up and down', but the line is there to tell you how to get one inch from the margin (left-right) no matter where you are on the paper. And no matter where you are on the line, you are one inch to the right of the left margin. So if you travel up and down a line of longitude, you might cover several thousand miles, but you haven't budged from your measure of longitude-- how far you are (in degrees) from the prime meridian. As you travel along your line of longitude, you see hash-marks with changing numbers of degrees. These are not changes in longitude, but in latitude. They answer: How far north or south am I, along this line of longitude? When doing navigation, the simple thing is that lines of longitude are all long. Since they all go through both the North and South Pole, they are all the same length. Latitude lines vary in length. Latitude: LAT=FLAT Longitude: LONG (heights)
