Why are latitudes called parallels?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

-- Name any two latitudes you choose. (except 90 degrees north or south)

-- Place a dot on the globe at every point on Earth that has the first latitude.

(If your time is limited and you can't mark every one of the infinite number of them,

then mark only enough of them so that the line on which they all lie begins to emerge.)

-- Place a dot on the globe at every point on Earth that has the second latitude.

(If your time is limited and you can't mark every one of the infinite number of them,

then mark only enough of them so that the line on which they all lie begins to emerge.)

-- The two lines on the globe ... each line being the locus of all points on Earth

having one of the latitudes you named ... share the following properties:

. . . . . They are the same distance apart everywhere on Earth.

. . . . . They neither touch nor intersect anywhere, nor have they any points in common.

-- These properties so strongly resemble the description of parallel lines on a

flat plane, that the curved ones on the globe are called "parallels" of latitude.

Answer 3

Latitudes are called parallels because they run parallel to the equator, maintaining an equal distance from one another as they encircle the Earth. This characteristic gives them their name as they form circles parallel to each other at different distances from the equator.