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What is the Distance from the equator measured in degrees called?
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∙ 10y ago
'Distance' can't be measured in degrees.
The angle from the equator to the place of interest
is the latitude of the place.
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What is distance north or south of the equator called?
The distance north or south of the equator is measured in degrees of latitude. For example, the equator is measured at 0 degrees; Sydney Australia lies 33.51 degrees south of the equator; Helsinki Finland lies 60 degrees north of the equator.
Distance north or south measured in degrees is called what?
Latitude
What sHows is distance in degrees east and west of the equator?
That is called latitude.
Is the Arctic Circle or the South Pole closer to the Equator?
what is the distance north and south of the equator: Latitude.
What is the zero line for latitude?
0 degrees latitude is called the Equator. 0 degrees longitude is called the Prime Meridian
Is the Distance from the equator measured in degrees is called?
'Distance' can't be measured in degrees.The angle from the equator to the place of interestis the latitude of the place.
What is distance north or south of the equator called?
The distance north or south of the equator is measured in degrees of latitude. For example, the equator is measured at 0 degrees; Sydney Australia lies 33.51 degrees south of the equator; Helsinki Finland lies 60 degrees north of the equator.
Distance north or south measured in degrees is called what?
Latitude
What sHows is distance in degrees east and west of the equator?
That is called latitude.
Is the Arctic Circle or the South Pole closer to the Equator?
what is the distance north and south of the equator: Latitude.
What is the 0 line of the latitude called?
It is called the "Equator".Zero degrees latitude is called the equator. The equator separates the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth and is equidistant from the North and South Poles.That is the Equator. The imaginary line at zero degrees longitude is called the Prime Meridian.
What is the zero line for latitude?
0 degrees latitude is called the Equator. 0 degrees longitude is called the Prime Meridian
What is the line of o latitude called?
The 0 degree line of Latitude is called the Equator.
What is the name of the line of latitude that runs around the centre of the world?
This is the Tropic of Capricorn.
Distance north or south on a map can be measured by which of these?
Latitude measures North or South of the Equator in degrees. 0° is the Equator, and 90° N (or +90°) is the North Pole, and 90° S (or -90°) is the South Pole. Each degree of latitude is about 69 miles (or 60 Nautical Miles). Longitude lines (which run north and south, but measure east/west) get closer together as you approach either pole.
What is the 0 line latitude called?
the equator
The name given to 0 degrees latitude?
The 0 degrees latitude line is called the equator.
