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There are 180 degrees of east longitude and 180 degrees of west longitude,
for a grand total of 360 degrees of longitude around the Earth. You're free to
draw as few or as many 'lines' through that range on your map or globe as you
feel will make you comfortable. There is no standard set of 'lines' that everone
is required to use.
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When lines of longitude and latitude cross they make a?
Lines of longitude and latitude cross each other and denote the absolute location of the area crossed by the coordinates. Each area on earth has it own absolute location.
In what direction do the latitude lines run?
longitude goes from north to south =]and a way to remember latitude [ i read it from yahoo answers x3 ]latty fatty because latitude goes around the earth and usually if u can remember thatyou can remember that longitude goes from the north and south poles :Di hope i helped :P i somtimes dont make sense xD
What is a set of imaginary lines that run parallel around the earth from east to west and measure north and south?
Those are the 'meridians of longitude'. Each one joins the North Pole and South Pole. They are farthest apart at the equator, and they all converge at the poles. Since there's no obvious place to start numbering, somebody had to make the decision of where to put the 'zero'. The British were the big guys in the navy business at the time, so they needed a standard system more than anyone else did, and they set the standard: The 'zero' of longitude measurement ... the line called the "Prime Meridian", was (and still is) defined as the meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. All longitude on the earth is measured as so many degrees east or west of that meridian. (That's why Egypt is the "Near East", Iran is the "Middle East", China is the "Far East", and the US and Canada are the "Western" world.)
What do lines of longitude and latitude combine to make?
The lines don't make anything in particular, except for a fancy hypnotic pattern on a map or globe. Any latitude angle and any longitude angle combine to describe the location of a single unique point on the surface of the Earth.
What do you call the lines that make up the grid on your maps?
Lines of longitude and latitude
How can I make a sentence with longitude?
Longitude gives an east or west co-ordinate when getting the position of somewhere on Earth.
When lines of longitude and latitude cross they make a?
Lines of longitude and latitude cross each other and denote the absolute location of the area crossed by the coordinates. Each area on earth has it own absolute location.
The network of lines of latitude and longitude that make up the coordinate system of earth?
grid system
Why are lines of longitude called great circles?
Because they make big circles around the Earth.
In what direction do the latitude lines run?
longitude goes from north to south =]and a way to remember latitude [ i read it from yahoo answers x3 ]latty fatty because latitude goes around the earth and usually if u can remember thatyou can remember that longitude goes from the north and south poles :Di hope i helped :P i somtimes dont make sense xD
What is a set of imaginary lines that run parallel around the earth from east to west and measure north and south?
Those are the 'meridians of longitude'. Each one joins the North Pole and South Pole. They are farthest apart at the equator, and they all converge at the poles. Since there's no obvious place to start numbering, somebody had to make the decision of where to put the 'zero'. The British were the big guys in the navy business at the time, so they needed a standard system more than anyone else did, and they set the standard: The 'zero' of longitude measurement ... the line called the "Prime Meridian", was (and still is) defined as the meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. All longitude on the earth is measured as so many degrees east or west of that meridian. (That's why Egypt is the "Near East", Iran is the "Middle East", China is the "Far East", and the US and Canada are the "Western" world.)
What lines make the earths grid?
Lines of latitude and the lines of longitude.
What lines makes up earths grid system?
Lines of latitude and the lines of longitude.
What do these lines of latitude and longitude make?
a location.
What lines make up the earths''grid'' system?
Lines of latitude and the lines of longitude.
What do you call the lines that make up the grid on your maps?
Lines of longitude and latitude
What do lines of longitude and latitude combine to make?
The lines don't make anything in particular, except for a fancy hypnotic pattern on a map or globe. Any latitude angle and any longitude angle combine to describe the location of a single unique point on the surface of the Earth.
