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The lines don't make anything in particular, except for a fancy hypnotic pattern

on a map or globe.

Any latitude angle and any longitude angle combine to describe the location of

a single unique point on the surface of the Earth.

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When lines of longitude and latitude cross they make a?

Lines of longitude and latitude cross each other and denote the absolute location of the area crossed by the coordinates. Each area on earth has it own absolute location.


What do you call the lines that make up the grid on your maps?

Those are called latitude and longitude lines. Latitude lines run east-west, measuring north and south of the Equator. Longitude lines run north-south, measuring east and west of the Prime Meridian. Together, they help determine specific locations on a map.


What is the critical rule for reading a map to determine grid coordinates?

The critical rule for reading a map to determine grid coordinates is to first determine the longitude (vertical lines) and then the latitude (horizontal lines) on the map that intersect at the point of interest. The grid coordinates are then expressed as a combination of the longitude and latitude lines.


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.


Difference between latitude and longitude?

The difference between latitude and longitude is that latitude refers to a location point's distance that is either north or south of the equator and longitude refers to a specific point's distance that is either east or west of the prime meridian. The prime meridian is the longitude line that has zero degree and passes near London, United Kingdom.

Related Questions

What do these lines of latitude and longitude make?

a location.


What lines make the earths grid?

Lines of latitude and the lines of longitude.


What lines makes up earths grid system?

Lines of latitude and the lines of longitude.


What lines make up the earths''grid'' system?

Lines of latitude and the lines of longitude.


What types of lines on a map make a grid?

longitude and latitude


When lines of longitude and latitude cross they make a?

Lines of longitude and latitude cross each other and denote the absolute location of the area crossed by the coordinates. Each area on earth has it own absolute location.


What do you call the lines that make up the grid on your maps?

Those are called latitude and longitude lines. Latitude lines run east-west, measuring north and south of the Equator. Longitude lines run north-south, measuring east and west of the Prime Meridian. Together, they help determine specific locations on a map.


The network of lines of latitude and longitude that make up the coordinate system of earth?

grid system


How does a global grid make it possible to find locations?

A place can be located by where the nearest lines of latitude an longitude cross.


What is the critical rule for reading a map to determine grid coordinates?

The critical rule for reading a map to determine grid coordinates is to first determine the longitude (vertical lines) and then the latitude (horizontal lines) on the map that intersect at the point of interest. The grid coordinates are then expressed as a combination of the longitude and latitude lines.


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.


Difference between latitude and longitude?

The difference between latitude and longitude is that latitude refers to a location point's distance that is either north or south of the equator and longitude refers to a specific point's distance that is either east or west of the prime meridian. The prime meridian is the longitude line that has zero degree and passes near London, United Kingdom.