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Longitude lines are a set of imaginary lines that goes around the earth over the poles. The Prime Meridian is the longitude line that divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres, just as the equator divides the northern and southern hemispheres.

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What are the imaginary lines called that circle the earth?

The equator and the lines of longitude.


How are latitude and longitude the same?

They are both imaginary lines which circle the earth!


What is the term for the imaginary parallel lines that circles the earth?

Latitude and LongitudeLatitude is the lines that go from east to west, and longitude from north to south.


What a imaginary line that circle the earth they are also called parallels?

Those are the Latitude lines.


Imaginary lines which circle the earth from east to west are lines of which are also called?

Imaginary lines that circle the earth from east to west are called lines of longitude, or meridians. These lines help define the distance east or west of the prime meridian, which is located in Greenwich, England.


Which of the above terms indicates imaginary parallel lines that circle the earth?

The term that indicates imaginary parallel lines that circle the Earth is "latitude." Latitude lines run horizontally around the globe, measuring the distance north or south of the Equator. These lines are used in geographic coordinate systems to help locate positions on the Earth's surface.


Which imaginary line runs all the way around the earth?

The equator is the best known such imaginary line. However, latitudes (including the Arctic Circle) are also imaginary lines encircling the earth as are longitudes.


What Names of imaginary line in globe?

-- Most of the imaginary lines on the surface are parallels of latitude, meridians of longitude, political boundaries, and shipping routes. -- The imaginary lines through the center of the globe are the axis and diameters.


What is an imaginary circle drawn through the earth from the north to the south pole?

Such a circle would describe two lines of longitude. The pole intersects the circle in two places forming two separate arcs; each arc is a line of longitude. The plane containing the circle also divides the earth into two hemispheres.


The equator is an imaginary circle drawn around the earth that divides it into northern and southern hemispheres What are the imaginary lines called that are parallel to the equator?

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How many imaginary lines are there?

they are : equator,antarctic circle,tropic of cancer,tropic of Capricorn and Arctic circle.


How are the arctic and antarctic circle geographically alike?

Both imaginary lines are circles of constant latitude, 23.5 degrees from a pole of the earth's axis.