Do lines of longitude run north south or east west?

Answer 1

I not even 5 minutes ago did this on homework and got it correct.

Lines of longitude run east to west and measure places expressed

in degrees north or south of the Prime Meridian. I promise I'm correct,

because I got a 100% on this. If you're a homeschooler it's right in the

fine print just look.

=================================

Marvelous ! The breathless, excited, enthusiastic, self-congratulatory answer above is totally wrong.

Answer 2

That's going to depend on how your map is printed.

Most large-scale maps of the Earth are printed with either North or South at the top.

On those maps, parallels of constant latitude cross the map, from one side margin

to the other.

Answer 3

That's going to depend on how your map is printed.

Most large-scale maps of the Earth are printed with either North or South at the top.

On those maps, parallels of constant latitude cross the map, from one side margin

to the other.

Answer 4

Lines of longitude run north-south from the North Pole to the South Pole. They measure distances east or west of the Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, England.

Answer 5

They run horizontally, because if you look up the question"do lines of latitude go vertically or horizontally?", the answer there is vertically, so the answer is horizontally.

Answer 6

Lines of longitude run vertically on a map.

Answer 7

Every point on a 'line' of longitude has the same east/west coordinate.

So the only way you can possibly move along the line is north or south.

Answer 8

No. Each line of constant latitude stays where it is,

and is drawn in an east/west fashion.

Answer 9

Lines of longitude run from pole to pole. As the convention is to view maps and world globes with the north towards the top, then the lines can be said to run vertical.

Answer 10

Traditionally horizontally.