The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) at which the longitude is defined to be 0°.
The Prime Meridian and its opposite the 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), which the International Date Line generally follows, form a great circle that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
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The Nickname is the maridian
Roughly 180o, the date line wiggles to avoid passing over inhabited land so that people don't have the complication of living with the dateline passing through their town.
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The difference between any meridian and the equator:-The Equator is an imaginary line of latitude (it goes round the middle of the Earth in the plane in which the Earth spins) it is also a "Great Circle" in that the plane of the equator passes through the middle of the Earth.Meridians are imaginary lines of longitude (they pass through the North and South Poles of Earth and are therefore at 90 degrees to the plane in which the Earth spins). Meridians/lines of longitude are also "Great Circles".The difference between the prime meridian and the equator:-The Equator is 0 degrees latitude while the Prime Meridian is 0 degrees longitude.
It goes north and soouth
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The Prime Meridian does not divide the Earth, it is an imaginary line going straight through the center.
the equator I don't think its the equator, which runs east/west. How about the prime maridian
the equator I don't think its the equator, which runs east/west. How about the prime maridian
The spelling is "prime meridian". That is the meridian from which counting begins; i.e., the prime meridian, by definition, has longitude zero, and degrees are counted to the east and to the west of the prime meridian. In the international system currently used, that is the Greenwich meridian - a meridian that goes through the Greenwich Observatory in London.
The Nickname is the maridian
Berk, west of hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death. Located on the Maridian of Misery.
buy stuff... go bowling in the maridian... watch films in cinimas(odean, vue)... errm sorry i live there it's pretty good but err there's alot of chav's. ;)
Roughly 180o, the date line wiggles to avoid passing over inhabited land so that people don't have the complication of living with the dateline passing through their town.
the exact location of Costa Rica would be 10˚ north of the equator and 84˚west of the prime maridian
The equator is the parallel that consists of every point on Earth whose distances from the north and south poles are equal. In the system of geographic coordinates that we've invented to describe the location of points on Earth, the equator is defined as zero latitude.