what is Latitude and what is Longitude?

Answer 1

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Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. Latitude is an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the poles (90° N or 90° S). Co-latitude is the complement of latitude.

Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the Prime Meridian to +180° eastward and −180° westward. Unlike latitude, which has the equator as a natural starting position, there is no natural starting position for longitude. Therefore, a reference meridian had to be chosen. While British cartographers had long used the Greenwich meridian in London, other references were used elsewhere, including: El Hierro, Rome, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Saint Petersburg, Pisa, Paris, Philadelphia and Washington. In 1884, the International Meridian Conference adopted the Greenwich meridian as the universal prime meridian or zero point of longitude.

Answer 2

Latitude is how far you're from north or south from the center of the globe(there's an imaginary horizontal line that's in the middle of the planet called Ecuador), and it's expressed in grades. Longitude is how far east or west you're from the Greenwich Meridian(a vertical line that divides the world into two and the ones west are the ones gettin sunlight first or the ones gettin a new day before the ones in the east of the meridian)

Answer 3

ok this is how i remember latitude is rhymes w/ fat and fat people are big around the waste so fatitude and latitude. and u'll know longitude. but this is how we measure the world north and south latitude. West and east longitude

Answer 4

LONGitude...think north to south. LATITude think Latin...east to west.

Answer 5

Imaginary lines parallel to equater are called latitudes while imaginary lines parallel to international date line are called longitudes.

Answer 6

have you ever been to ecuador, well.. they have a red line going through their country.. that is one, it is at 0'