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What are the biggest numbers you can find for a line of longitude?
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Is the prime meridian a line of latitude or a line of longitude?
The Prime Meridian is a line of longitude, and it sits at 0 degrees longitude.
Which line of longitude is found opposite of the Prime Meridian?
The major line of longitude located at 180 degrees longitude is the International Date Line.
What is the invisible line at zero longitude?
The Prime Meridian is the invisible line at zero longitude
What is another name for longitude lines?
another name for a line of longitude is meridian.
When using latitude and longitude to find places on earth what do you use as your starting point?
The equator is the zero reference line for latitude, and the Prime Meridian is the one for longitude.
What are the smallest and biggest numbers you can find for a line of longitude?
The smallest is 0o0'0'' and the largest is 180o0'0''
What the biggest numbers you can find for a line of longitude?
If two travellers 'A' and 'B' started from the Prime Meridian (zero longitude). 'A' travelled to the West, and ''B travelled to the East, they will meet on the other side of the World at 180 degrees longitude. Therefore, the biggest number is 180 degrees longitude. The International Date Line roughly follows the 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth.
Is Springfield illinois closer to the latitude line or the longitude line?
Every point on Earth has a latitude and a longitude. Together, the pair of numbers is different from the numbers of any other point on Earth.
How do you find longitude and latitude?
You find latitude by finding the place on the map and see what line it is between or on. The same with longitude. You can also find the latitude and longitude of an address using Google maps.
Is the prime meridian a line of latitude or a line of longitude?
The Prime Meridian is a line of longitude, and it sits at 0 degrees longitude.
Which line of longitude is found opposite of the Prime Meridian?
The major line of longitude located at 180 degrees longitude is the International Date Line.
What is the range of the numbers on lines of longitude?
Longitude measures the angle east and west from the prime meridian rangimg from -180 to +180. Positive longitude values are in the eastern hemisphere and negative longitude is in the western hemisphere. Of special note is the 180th parallel line which is both -180 and +180 and also closely aligned to the International Date Line.
Which longitude line will you find at 0 degrees?
The Prime Meridian. Opposite Prime Meridian (180-degrees Longitude) is The International Date Lin.
What line of longitude passes through the state Louisiana?
Louisiana occupies a range of longitude from about 89.067 ° west ... at the end of Main Pass southeast of Houma ... to about 94.043° west, along the line from Logansport up to the Arkansas line. That's a span of almost 5° of west longitude. Any longitude you can name that's between these two numbers passes through the state. You can draw as many or as few lines on your map between these numbers as you're comfortable with.
Is the prime meridian the latitude line?
No, its the longitude line. Its 0 degress longitude.
Is 104 degrees west a line of longitude or latitude?
104W is a longitude line. Anything labelled as "E" or "W" is longitude.
How are line of longitude also called?
A line of constant longitude is often referred to as a 'meridian'.
