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How long is a degree of latitude at the equator?
60 nm.
What is the shortest latitudes at what degree?
The higher the latitude, the shorter the circle is. -- Equator . . . zero latitude, 24,900 miles long. -- North pole / south pole . . . 90 degrees latitude, zero length.
What is the latitude of at the equator?
The latitude of the equator is zero degrees. North latitude is measured northward beginning at the equator. South latitude is measured southward beginning at the equator.Yes, the equator is the line of zero degrees latitude.0 there is none it is zero!Zero degrees (by definition).0 degreesThe equator is at 0 degrees latitude.
When listing the location of a place the degree of latitude is always listed where?
its always listed first!
Do lines of latitude circle Earth paral lel to the Equator?
YES!The way you remember which is which ... Longitude has 'Long' in it. Lines of longitude are always the same length because they circle the Earth from Pole to Pole, the LONG way around.Lines of Latitude on the other hand, circle the Earth getting progressively shorter the further North or South of the Equator they are.
Which of these tells you the distance north or south of the Equator?
Latitude tells how far north or south a place is from the Equator. Longitude tells how far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian. These can be remembered because Latitude sounds like Ladder and the lines for Latitude are like rungs in a ladder. Also, Longitude has the word Long in it and east to west is "Long."
What line of latitude is the biggst circle?
The line of zero latitude, also known as the "equator", is.It's roughly 24,800 miles long.
In which directions does a parallel or line of latitude run?
Latitude runs East & West - horizontal lines.Remember this:Longitude is "longitude" ("long" North & South)Latitude is "flatitude"("flat" East & West)
What is used to measure longitude and latitude?
by degree, each degree is broken up into 60 minutes and each minute is broken up into 60 seconds (remember minutes and seconds are used as measures of distance, rather than time when you are talking about longitude and latitude. To know your longitude at sea before the arrival of GPS equipment (which gets an instant reading from geostationary space stations) you had to calculate it from knowing your speed and how long you had been sailing.
How long is 1 degree for lines of latitude and longitude?
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, and the WGS84 system that we use for degree confluences includes a mathematical model (GRS80) of the Earth as an ellipsoid. Using established GRS80 constants, and the Vincenty Algorithm (PDF document), the distance between degrees of latitude (lines that run east-west) varies from 110.57km (68.71mi) at the equator (0 degrees latitude) to 111.69km (69.40mi) between 89 degrees latitude and the poles. For the purposes of the project, we don't take these variations in the distance between degrees of latitude into account when categorizing degree confluences. Using the same calculation methods, the distance between degrees of longitude (lines that run north-south) varies between 111.32km (69.17mi) at the equator (0 degrees latitude) to 1.95km (1.21mi) at 89 degrees latitude, one degree from the north or south pole. Because the lines of longitude meet at the poles, the distance between degrees of longitude at the poles is zero.
How long is kiometers in one degree latitude?
One degree of latitude is always approximately 111 kilometers. This is a constant value because the Earth is a sphere.
What is the line of latitude at 0 degrees around the middle of the globe called?
The line of latitude at 0 degrees is called the Equator. It divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere and is the halfway point between the North Pole and the South Pole.
