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What are the imaginary lines perpendicular to the equator called?

Longitudinal or longitude lines are the imaginary lines that are perpendicular to the equator. Latitudinal or latitude lines are parallel to the equator.


What are lines of latitutde?

Latitude lines are imaginary lines that are parallel to the equator to fix a position on earth (along with longitude lines which are imaginary lines perpendicular to the equator)


The equator is an imaginary circle drawn around the earth that divides it into northern and southern hemispheres What are the imaginary lines called that are parallel to the equator?

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What Lines of run parallel to the equator?

Lines of Latitude encircle the Earth, running parallel to the Equator.


What are the imaginary lines that measure distance north to south of the equator?

parallel lines, or lines of latitude.


What are the imaginary lines that parallel the equator?

The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn .


Lines running parallel to the equator are called?

You have answered the question for yourself ; They are 'Latitudes''. Longitudes (Meridians) are lines that run North to South from the North Pole to the South Pole. Longitudes come to a point at the poles, but spread out to a maximum at the Equator.


Which imaginary lines are based on the equator?

The lines are latitude,heat equator and pressure belts.


What is imaginary lines that run parallel to the Equator?

there are two names i can think of: lines of latitude and also parallels


What is the imaginary horizontal lines that go the same way as the equator?

The set of imaginary lines that are all parallel to the equator are the parallels of latitude. Whether they're horizontal or not depends on how you hold your map.


What are imaginary lines running east and west showing distance north and south of the equator?

Lines of latitude


What are the imaginary parallel lines numbered in degrees around the north and south of the equator?

The imaginary parallel lines numbered in degrees around the north and south of the equator are called lines of latitude. The lines of latitude run east-west and are measured in degrees from 0° at the equator to 90° at the poles. They help in determining the location of a place on Earth's surface.