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What has been used as grid measurement system for navigating the earth for years?
Latitude and Longitude
What is one measurement on a map called?
latitude or longitude...
What have been used as a grid measurement system for navigating the Earth for hundreds of years?
Latitude and longitude have been used as a grid measurement system for navigating the Earth for hundreds of years. Longitude measures distance east or west of the prime meridian, while latitude measures distance north or south of the equator.
What are degrees in geography?
it is a unit of measurement that is created by the division of lines of latitude and longitude
What are 2 special measurements geographers use to describe location?
Measurement 1: Latitude Measurement 2: Longitude
What is the definition of degrees on a map?
Degrees on a map refer to the units used to measure latitude and longitude. They are used to indicate a specific location on the Earth's surface and help in navigation and understanding the spatial relationships between different places on a map.
What is the unit of measurement used for reading lines of longitude and latitude?
You would use angular degrees or angular degrees plus minutes and seconds.
What is a sentence with the word latitude in it?
Latitude and longitude is used on maps.
Why are lines of longitude and latitude important on a map or globe?
Latitude and Longitude are used to point to exactly where you want to be
How do you use longitude and latitude used to identify a location?
what using a longitude and latitude is used to create map showing exact location
What is the unit of measurement for latitude and longitude?
Latitude and longitude are angles, and are best expressed in units of angle measurement. The most commonly used are degrees, minutes, seconds, and fractions of seconds. Increasingly common, with the advent of GPS systems, decimal equivalents are used for the fractional part of degrees.
What is the set of horizontal and vertical on a map?
Those lines indicate latitude and longitude, a means of measurement.
