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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.
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The longitude lines are great circles that pass through the north and south poles.
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What type of projection has parallel lines of longitude which disappear near the poles?
Mercator is the type of projection which has parallel lines of longitude which disappear near the poles. The project in question also presents parallel lines of latitude even though the overall clarity gets distorted around both the North and South Poles.
What are the two kinds of line in map eh?
They are Lines of Latitude (or Parallels of Latitude), which encircle the world horizontally and are parallel to the Equator (Zero Latitude). Lines of Longitude run vertically from the North Pole to the South Pole. The Prime Meridian is Zero Longitude, and the line passes through the Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, London, England.
What are the imaginary lines that measure distance on maps and globes?
east and west
What is a line parallel to the earths surface?
That would be latitude or longitude.
What lines act as a invisible grid over the earth?
They are the lines of latitude and longitude.
What lines are parallel to the equator?
lines of latitude
Which one line is parallel latitude or longitude?
All 'lines' of latitude are parallel to all others.No meridian of longitude is parallel to any others.-- All 'lines' of latitude are parallel to all others.-- No meridian of longitude is parallel to any other one.
Lines of latitude and lines of longitude are perpendicular to?
Every meridian of longitude is perpendicular to every parallel of latitude, and every parallel of latitude is perpendicular to every meridian of longitude.
Are latitude lines parallel or perpendicular?
Parallel. Latitude and longitude are perpendicular.
Are the parallel lines on a globe called longitude or latitude lines?
Latitude.
Which line latitude and longitude parallel?
All lines of latitude are parallel with the equator.
What map has parallel lines of latitude and longitude?
Most maps will show latitude and longitude lines, if not, they're ALWAYS on a globe.
Do latitude lines ever touch longitude lines?
Every parallel of latitude crosses every meridian of longitude.
Of longitude and latitude which is parallel?
Lines of constant latitude are all parallel to each other.
What is the latitude and longitude of 60th parallel s?
The 60th parallel South is a line of latitude crossing all lines of longitude.
Are longitudes and latitudes parallels lines?
Latitude lines are parallel but not longitude lines.
Are all the longitudes parallel?
All lines of constant latitude are parallel to all others,but no two lines of constant longitude are parallel.
