That point is in the mid-Atlantic, about 890 miles due west of the African coast, and about 550 miles
northwest of Praia in the leeward group of the Cape Verde Islands.
That point is in the mid-Atlantic, about 890 miles due west of the African coast, and about 550 miles
northwest of Praia in the leeward group of the Cape Verde Islands.
The lines on a global grid that run from pole to pole are called meridians of longitude. The prime meridian, which passes through Greenwich, London, is the most well-known and has a longitude of 0 degrees. The meridian at 180 degrees, opposite the prime meridian, is called the International Date Line.
The equator is the imaginary line that divides the Earth in half. It is a circle around the Earth at its widest point, equidistant from both poles. The bulge of the planet at the equator is cause by the Earth's rotation, as is the corresponding flattening at the poles.The Equator, Ecuador is located right on the line, which is where it gets its name from.Equator
The prime meridian in located at 0 degress longitude, and passes through Grenich, England.
About one degree cooler by the equator and five degrees cooler by the ice caps.
Global winds and currents near the equator flow east to west. The global wind belt located north and south of the equator is called trade winds.
The Equator and Prime Meridian
Ecuador. Because it is on the equator
The equator divides the Earth into two. Each half is called a hemisphere. The equator divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres. The prime meridian and the 180 dgrees meridian divide Earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
20° north, 30° west.
The lines on a global grid that run from pole to pole are called meridians of longitude. The prime meridian, which passes through Greenwich, London, is the most well-known and has a longitude of 0 degrees. The meridian at 180 degrees, opposite the prime meridian, is called the International Date Line.
Zero degrees latitude. It should be right around the middle.
The equator is the imaginary line that divides the Earth in half. It is a circle around the Earth at its widest point, equidistant from both poles. The bulge of the planet at the equator is cause by the Earth's rotation, as is the corresponding flattening at the poles.The Equator, Ecuador is located right on the line, which is where it gets its name from.Equator
Geographers use latitude and longitude coordinates to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth. Latitude measures how far north or south a place is from the equator, while longitude measures how far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian.
The prime meridian in located at 0 degress longitude, and passes through Grenich, England.
Longitude are identified by the Greek letter lambda, is the geographic coordinate most commonly used in cartography and global navigation for east-west measurement. Constant longitude is represented by lines running from north to south. The line of longitude (meridian) that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in England, establishes the meaning of zero degrees of longitude, or the prime meridian. Any other longitude is identified by the east-west angle, referenced to the center of the Earth as vertex, between the intersections with the equator of the meridian through the location in question and the prime meridian. A location's position along a meridian is given by its latitude, which is identified by the north-south angle between the local vertical and the plane of the equator. Latitudes are usually denoted by the Greek letter phi gives the location of a place on Earth (or other planetary body) north or south of the equator. Lines of Latitude are the imaginary horizontal lines shown running from east-to-west (or west to east) on maps (particularly so in the Mercator projection) that run either north or south of the equator. Technically, latitude is an angular measurement in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the equator (low latitude) to 90° at the poles (90° N or +90° for the North Pole and 90° S or ?90° for the South Pole). The latitude is approximately the angle between straight up at the surface (the zenith) and the sun at an equinox. The complementary angle of a latitude is called as the co-latitude.
About one degree cooler by the equator and five degrees cooler by the ice caps.
The prime meridian, longitude 0° (zero degrees), runs through Greenwich in East London.