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Your thinking of the Prime Meridian, which terminates at the poles, and which connects to the International Date Line -- a non-straight line for political reasons, that essentially mirrors the PM, pole to pole.
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What is the line that runs through north and south poles and splits in have the eastern and western hemispheres?
meridians
Has a parallel lines of latitude and longitude?
Latitude and longtitide are used to indicated the fixed location of a point or sphere in relation to two of that sphere's opposite poles and one line joining them. Here on Earth the two poles are the North Pole and the South Pole, and the line joining them is the one which runs through London, England. Latitide and longitude do not apply to a planet, as it orbits the Sun and is always moving.
How many degrees is a meridian?
A meridian describes an arc connecting the north and south poles (a single line of longitude). As such, a meridian will be 180 degrees.
What is another name for a line is longitude?
A line of longitude may also be known as a meridian.Meridians (lines of Longitude) are great circles that go round the Earth through the North and South Poles. So they represent one-half of a polar circumference of the planet.The Prime Meridian runs through England (Greenwich) and is 0 degrees longitude.
What is the name of the imaginary line?
The Line of Demarcation split South America into sections for the countries which claimed it. The Line of Demarcation was drawn by Pope Alexander in 1493.
Make-believe line that runs through Earth's North and South poles is called the?
Axis
What do you call the imaginary line passing through the north and south poles by which the earth is divided?
The axis
What is the line that runs through north and south poles and splits in have the eastern and western hemispheres?
meridians
What is true meridian?
True meridian through a point is the line in which a plane, passing that point and the north and south poles, intersects with surface of the earth. It thus, passes through the true north and south. the direction of true meridian through a point can be established by astronomical observations.
What is the definition of the word axis?
axis - An imaginary line that passes through earths center and its north and south poles.
Is the north and south pole on a axis?
The North and South Poles are indeed imaginary points on the Earths surface where the line of the axis of it's spin would pass through.
Where does the system of numbered meridians start?
There is no begining or end. It is a line that goes on forever passing thru the north and south poles.
What is a imaganery line drawn through the north and south pole?
The straight line between the poles is the Earth's axis of rotation. The curved lines between the poles and along the surface are the meridians of longitude.
What is axis in planets?
The axis is the imaginary line that a planet rotates about, The earth's axis passes through the North and South poles.
What is a line that runs north and south called?
A line running north and south/ up and down is called a vertical line.
What imaginary line is halfway beween the north and south poles?
equator
What meridan means?
A geodesic line connecting the north and south poles.
