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How many degrees of longitude each side of the prime meridian?
Starting from the Prime Meridian and going either east or west, you'll cover 360 degrees of longitude before you find yourself back at the Prime Meridian again. Half-way around a sphere corresponds to 180 degrees. If you and your friend both start out from the Prime Meridian, and one of you travels east around the globe and the other travels west around the globe, you'll eventually meet each other. If you both travel exactly the same distance, then you each cover 180 degrees of longitude, and you meet exactly on the other side opposite the Prime Meridian, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at 180 degrees longitude, both east and west.
How many degrees of longitude would you cross to cover the whole world?
This may shock you, so you'd be wise to take it sitting down:East-west angles are described as angles of longitude. The Earth is a sphere.A trip around the entire Earth is a circle. In an east or west direction, such atrip covers 360 degrees of longitude. In a north or south direction, it covers360 degrees of latitude.
Why do you have 360 degrees longitudes and only 181 degrees latitudes?
There are several ways to come at this answer, most of them way too technical and arcane to bother with. The easiest answer to state and understand may be simply the fact that each parallel of latitude goes all the way around the Earth, but each meridian of longitude only goes half-way around the Earth, so you need more of them to cover the whole Earth. Does that do anything for you ? And by the way . . . there are only 180 degrees of latitude.
What is each time zone equal to in degrees longitude?
Time zones are ideally 15 degrees in width, so that 24 will cover the entire 360 degrees (180 east and 180 west)
If days had 36 hours how many degrees of longitude would each time zone be?
If a day had 36 hours instead of 24, each time zone would cover 30 degrees of longitude instead of the current 15 degrees. This is because the Earth rotates 360 degrees in 24 hours, so with 36 hours in a day, each hour of difference would correspond to 30 degrees of longitude.
Does Spain cover less than 20 degrees of longitude?
Madrid is 4°w longitude
How many degrees of longitude each side of the prime meridian?
Starting from the Prime Meridian and going either east or west, you'll cover 360 degrees of longitude before you find yourself back at the Prime Meridian again. Half-way around a sphere corresponds to 180 degrees. If you and your friend both start out from the Prime Meridian, and one of you travels east around the globe and the other travels west around the globe, you'll eventually meet each other. If you both travel exactly the same distance, then you each cover 180 degrees of longitude, and you meet exactly on the other side opposite the Prime Meridian, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at 180 degrees longitude, both east and west.
How many degrees of longitude would you cross to cover the whole world?
This may shock you, so you'd be wise to take it sitting down:East-west angles are described as angles of longitude. The Earth is a sphere.A trip around the entire Earth is a circle. In an east or west direction, such atrip covers 360 degrees of longitude. In a north or south direction, it covers360 degrees of latitude.
Latitude and longitude of arctic ocean?
It must, by definition, cover all lines of Longitude. In terms of Latitude it is further north than, say, 60 degrees.
How many degrees of longitude would you pass through to fly from Helena to Ulaanbaatar?
Assuming that the question is referring to Helena, Montana . . . If you travel the short way from Helena to Ulaanbaatar, you cover 141 degrees of longitude.
How many miles are between two degrees?
Is it longitude or latitude? Each degree of separation between latitude lines (this is as you travel due North or due South) is about 69 miles. This would also be true of degrees longitude only at the Equator. As you move toward one of the poles, longitude degrees get smaller, until you are at a pole, and you could walk a small circle around the pole in a few feet, and cover all 360 degrees. See related link.
Why do you have 360 degrees longitudes and only 181 degrees latitudes?
There are several ways to come at this answer, most of them way too technical and arcane to bother with. The easiest answer to state and understand may be simply the fact that each parallel of latitude goes all the way around the Earth, but each meridian of longitude only goes half-way around the Earth, so you need more of them to cover the whole Earth. Does that do anything for you ? And by the way . . . there are only 180 degrees of latitude.
What is each time zone equal to in degrees longitude?
Time zones are ideally 15 degrees in width, so that 24 will cover the entire 360 degrees (180 east and 180 west)
If days had 36 hours how many degrees of longitude would each time zone be?
If a day had 36 hours instead of 24, each time zone would cover 30 degrees of longitude instead of the current 15 degrees. This is because the Earth rotates 360 degrees in 24 hours, so with 36 hours in a day, each hour of difference would correspond to 30 degrees of longitude.
What is the exact latitude and longitude location of the Himalayas?
The Himalayas span over 1,500 miles across five countries (India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, and Pakistan), so they cover a wide range of latitudes and longitudes. The approximate coordinates for the central Himalayan range are between 27 to 35 degrees north latitude and 80 to 90 degrees east longitude.
Why do you have 360 longitudes and only 181 latitudes?
Because you must go all the way around the Earth in order to cross every possible longitude, but you only need to go half-way around it ... pole to pole ... in order to stand at every possible latitude. And by the way . . . there are an infinite number of longitudes, that cover a range of 360 degrees, and an infinite number of latitudes, that cover a range of 180 degrees.
What is the latitude and longitude of the North American prairies?
The North American prairies cover a vast area, but generally, they are located between 40 to 50 degrees North latitude and 90 to 110 degrees West longitude. This region spans from central Canada down to the United States Midwest.
