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The Earth is not a perfect sphere, and the WGS84 system that we use for degree confluences includes a mathematical model (GRS80) of the Earth as an ellipsoid. Using established GRS80 constants, and the Vincenty Algorithm (PDF document), the distance between degrees of latitude (lines that run east-west) varies from 110.57km (68.71mi) at the equator (0 degrees latitude) to 111.69km (69.40mi) between 89 degrees latitude and the poles. For the purposes of the project, we don't take these variations in the distance between degrees of latitude into account when categorizing degree confluences. Using the same calculation methods, the distance between degrees of longitude (lines that run north-south) varies between 111.32km (69.17mi) at the equator (0 degrees latitude) to 1.95km (1.21mi) at 89 degrees latitude, one degree from the north or south pole. Because the lines of longitude meet at the poles, the distance between degrees of longitude at the poles is zero.
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What is a trick to help you remember in which direction latitude and longitude?
Latitude lays flat and spiders have long legs
Do you look at the lines of latitude or the lines of longitude first when you are finding the coordinates?
It does not matter whether you look at the lines of latitude or longitude first. Usually coordinates are written latitude, then longitude. Good luck!
What is a trick to help you remember in which direction latitude and longitude lines lie?
Latitude, with an A, goes across the map.Longitude, with an O, goes over the Poles.
What is used to measure longitude and latitude?
by degree, each degree is broken up into 60 minutes and each minute is broken up into 60 seconds (remember minutes and seconds are used as measures of distance, rather than time when you are talking about longitude and latitude. To know your longitude at sea before the arrival of GPS equipment (which gets an instant reading from geostationary space stations) you had to calculate it from knowing your speed and how long you had been sailing.
In which directions does a parallel or line of latitude run?
Latitude runs East & West - horizontal lines.Remember this:Longitude is "longitude" ("long" North & South)Latitude is "flatitude"("flat" East & West)
How could i remember longitude and latitude lines?
for longitude you could say long and latitude you could say horizontal
What is a trick to help you remember in which direction latitude and longitude?
Latitude lays flat and spiders have long legs
What are the lines on the globe that run north and south between the poles?
The lines that run north and south "or long ways" are longitude lines. East and west are latitude lines.
Do you look at the lines of latitude or the lines of longitude first when you are finding the coordinates?
It does not matter whether you look at the lines of latitude or longitude first. Usually coordinates are written latitude, then longitude. Good luck!
What is a trick to help you remember in which direction latitude and longitude lines lie?
Latitude, with an A, goes across the map.Longitude, with an O, goes over the Poles.
What is used to measure longitude and latitude?
by degree, each degree is broken up into 60 minutes and each minute is broken up into 60 seconds (remember minutes and seconds are used as measures of distance, rather than time when you are talking about longitude and latitude. To know your longitude at sea before the arrival of GPS equipment (which gets an instant reading from geostationary space stations) you had to calculate it from knowing your speed and how long you had been sailing.
In which directions does a parallel or line of latitude run?
Latitude runs East & West - horizontal lines.Remember this:Longitude is "longitude" ("long" North & South)Latitude is "flatitude"("flat" East & West)
When plotting a map which comes first latitude or longitude?
Latitude is north/south of the equator measured in a series of degrees. Longitude is east/west, measured by a system of degrees from a fixed spot. So generaly at in a Latitude Longitude reading it will have a N or E. For example 25 01'59.72" N that would be latitude because of the N (meaning North) But in general I believe yes latitude is read first.
Which way is longatude and which way is latitude?
longitude is the long way...or horizontal. latitude is vertical, or up and down.
What types of lines run east and west and measure degree north and south?
Latitude lines. What helps me remember this is the word "latter", which sounds like "latitude". Ladders go up and down, and the lines MEASURE up and down (north and south). Longitude measures left and right (east and west), and can be remembered from the word "long".
What is the longitude and latitude of the Nile river?
It starts at 31 degrees North latitude and ends at 7 degrees south latitude.It ends at 30 degrees north longitude and ends at 30 degrees south longitude.
Difference between lines of latiude and longitude?
Latitude in my mind is fatitude because it goes side to side, and longitude is long so it goes up and down on a map.
