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What latitude is the tropic of cancer located at?
The Tropic of Cancer is the line that joins all points on the earth whose latitude is 23.5 degrees north.ALL longitudes on earth have a point on the Tropic of Cancer.
What line of latitude is at 66.5 degrees north?
That would be the parallel labeled "66.5° North" on maps or globes where 0.5° lines are printed. It's also the approximate latitude of the Arctic Circle.
What was the seventh parallel?
The 7th parallel is a common name meaning either 7 degrees north or south of the equator. It's a latitude line that circles the earth and you would normally say "7th parallel north" or "7th parallel south."
What is the latitude of a line that is two thirds of the way from the equator toward the south pole?
2/3 of the total of 90° would be 60° S latitude.
What is the distance in miles from the northern border of Oklahoma to the equator?
The northern border of Oklahoma appears to be the parallel of 37° north latitude. That would be 2,554.5 miles (rounded) north of the equator.
What is a line parallel to the earths surface?
That would be latitude or longitude.
What body of water lies at 41 degrees north latitude and 112 degrees west?
That would appear to be Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Is parallel north and south or west and east?
Lines of Latitude are parallel with each other and circle the globe east and west. Parallel refers to the relationship of two lines and really has nothing to do with direction. Parallel lines are two lines that would never meet even if extended to infinity.
What line has a latitude of 23.5 degrees South?
That would be the "parallel of 23.5° south latitude". The Tropic of Capricorn is also not far from there.
What latitude line is halfway between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
Yes. The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude. The North Pole is at 90 degrees N latitude. The Equator is at 0 degrees latitude.
Where would yoube if you were at the maximum latitude?
-- At the maximum positive latitude, you would be at the north pole. -- At the maximum negative latitude, you would be at the south pole.
What does canerous mean?
Nothing.The "Tropic of Cancer" is a circle of latitude, an imaginary line parallel to the Equator, about 23° 26' north of the equator. It is at this latitude that the Sun appears exactly overhead at the summer solstice.South of the equator there is the "Tropic of Capricorn"The 'Cancer' and 'Capricorn' in these names comes from the constellation in which the sun would appear to be at the Summer and winter solstices respectively (if you could see the Sun and the stars at the same time then).
