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The lines on the globe are not called "latitude", any more than the marks on a thermometer are called "temperature".

The lines on the globe that mark intervals of latitude are called "parallels" of latitude.

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Another term for lines of latitude?

Parallels.An easy way to remember this is by remembering that lines of lattitude run parallel across the earth.


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Africa has a hot climate because it lies across which line of latitude?

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This line of latitude runs across christian area of south America and Africa?

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