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If there are 360 degress of longitude around the earth and there are 24 times zones how many degrees does each time zone cover?
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360 degrees / 24 timezones = 15 degrees per timezone
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How many degrees of longitude each side of the prime meridian?
Starting from the Prime Meridian and going either east or west, you'll cover 360 degrees of longitude before you find yourself back at the Prime Meridian again. Half-way around a sphere corresponds to 180 degrees. If you and your friend both start out from the Prime Meridian, and one of you travels east around the globe and the other travels west around the globe, you'll eventually meet each other. If you both travel exactly the same distance, then you each cover 180 degrees of longitude, and you meet exactly on the other side opposite the Prime Meridian, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at 180 degrees longitude, both east and west.
How many degrees of longitude would you cross to cover the whole world?
This may shock you, so you'd be wise to take it sitting down:East-west angles are described as angles of longitude. The Earth is a sphere.A trip around the entire Earth is a circle. In an east or west direction, such atrip covers 360 degrees of longitude. In a north or south direction, it covers360 degrees of latitude.
What is each time zone equal to in degrees longitude?
Time zones are ideally 15 degrees in width, so that 24 will cover the entire 360 degrees (180 east and 180 west)
Why do you have 360 longitudes and only 181 latitudes?
Because you must go all the way around the Earth in order to cross every possible longitude, but you only need to go half-way around it ... pole to pole ... in order to stand at every possible latitude. And by the way . . . there are an infinite number of longitudes, that cover a range of 360 degrees, and an infinite number of latitudes, that cover a range of 180 degrees.
How are latitude and longitude measured?
The lines aren't measured at all, except possibly in the process of printing the map.It's the longitude that needs to be measured, and lines are often printed on mapsin order to make that job easier. Longitude is an angle, so it's described in angle units,most commonly in degrees.If you see a line on a map, every point on the 'line' has the same longitude, so there'snothing on the line to measure.
Does Spain cover less than 20 degrees of longitude?
Madrid is 4°w longitude
How many degrees of longitude each side of the prime meridian?
Starting from the Prime Meridian and going either east or west, you'll cover 360 degrees of longitude before you find yourself back at the Prime Meridian again. Half-way around a sphere corresponds to 180 degrees. If you and your friend both start out from the Prime Meridian, and one of you travels east around the globe and the other travels west around the globe, you'll eventually meet each other. If you both travel exactly the same distance, then you each cover 180 degrees of longitude, and you meet exactly on the other side opposite the Prime Meridian, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at 180 degrees longitude, both east and west.
How many degrees of longitude would you cross to cover the whole world?
This may shock you, so you'd be wise to take it sitting down:East-west angles are described as angles of longitude. The Earth is a sphere.A trip around the entire Earth is a circle. In an east or west direction, such atrip covers 360 degrees of longitude. In a north or south direction, it covers360 degrees of latitude.
Latitude and longitude of arctic ocean?
It must, by definition, cover all lines of Longitude. In terms of Latitude it is further north than, say, 60 degrees.
How many degrees of longitude would you pass through to fly from Helena to Ulaanbaatar?
Assuming that the question is referring to Helena, Montana . . . If you travel the short way from Helena to Ulaanbaatar, you cover 141 degrees of longitude.
How many miles are between two degrees?
Is it longitude or latitude? Each degree of separation between latitude lines (this is as you travel due North or due South) is about 69 miles. This would also be true of degrees longitude only at the Equator. As you move toward one of the poles, longitude degrees get smaller, until you are at a pole, and you could walk a small circle around the pole in a few feet, and cover all 360 degrees. See related link.
What is each time zone equal to in degrees longitude?
Time zones are ideally 15 degrees in width, so that 24 will cover the entire 360 degrees (180 east and 180 west)
Why do you have 360 longitudes and only 181 latitudes?
Because you must go all the way around the Earth in order to cross every possible longitude, but you only need to go half-way around it ... pole to pole ... in order to stand at every possible latitude. And by the way . . . there are an infinite number of longitudes, that cover a range of 360 degrees, and an infinite number of latitudes, that cover a range of 180 degrees.
How are latitude and longitude measured?
The lines aren't measured at all, except possibly in the process of printing the map.It's the longitude that needs to be measured, and lines are often printed on mapsin order to make that job easier. Longitude is an angle, so it's described in angle units,most commonly in degrees.If you see a line on a map, every point on the 'line' has the same longitude, so there'snothing on the line to measure.
What do longitude lines cover that latitude lines don't?
The longitude lines cover the vertical side of the earth and the latitude lines cover the horizontal side. This gives you map coordination's.
In what movie does Leon Robinson play a gay man?
If you are talking about ''LEON'' the movie was cover.
If days had 36 hours how many degrees of longitude would each time zone be?
If you define a time zone as one hour then a 24 hour day will have 24 time zones which each will equal 15 degrees. Therefore an 18 hour day will have 18 time zones of 20 degrees each. 24 x 15 degrees = 360 degrees 18 x 20 degrees = 360 degrees
