What are parallel of latitude and meridian of longitude?

Answer 1

Every position on the Earth has a latitude and a longitude measured in degrees. Changing the latitude while keeping the same longitude means you are moving north or south along a meridian. On the other hand changing the longitude but not the latitude means that you move east/west along a parallel of latitude.

Lines of latitude are called 'small circles' (except the equator) because they get smaller and smaller at higher latitudes, but they are always parallel, so they are parallels of latitude.

Lines of longitude are 'great circles' because they always lie in a plane that goes through the Earth's centre, and they are called meridians. Your personal meridian at this moment is a great circle that contains you, the north and south poles, and the centre of the Earth.

Get an onion and mark a small 'x' on it, then cut it in two at the 'x' making sure to cut it through its north and south poles as well. The cut plane marks the meridian of the 'x'.

Answer 2

1. The line that run east to west are callded parallel of latitude. 2. the line that run north to south are called meridian of longitude. MY NAME IS CRYSTAL N.DEAN

Answer 3

When a latitude is named, a parallel of latitude is an imaginary line on the
surface of the Earth formed of all points that have that same latitude.

When a longitude is named, a parallel of longitude is an imaginary line on the
surface of the Earth formed of all points that have that same longitude.

Answer 4

The main difference is that they are perpendicular to each other. Otherwise all lines of latitude are parallel and all lines of longitude intercect at each pole.