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2007-01-12 13:22:07 · 9 answers · asked by Bill B 1 in Science & Mathematics Geography

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latitude is an angular value and is measured with respect to the equatorial plane.
certain suppositions have been adopted at global level.
Assigning zero degree to equator and 23deg and half to tropic of cancer and capricorn are associated with incidence of sun rays
Height of sun with respect to equator is the latitude of a place.

suppose sunrays over a place are falling at 47 degreeswith respect to sunrays over equator on an equinox, the latitude of that place will be 90-47=43 deg north or south.

Get any junior school geography book or penguins dictionary of physical geography, more elucidation can be sought.

2007-01-12 17:45:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi, , gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. Latitude is an angular measurement in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the Equator (low latitude) to 90° at the poles (90° N for the North Pole or 90° S for the South Pole; high latitude). The complementary angle of a latitude is called the colatitude

2007-01-12 13:24:54 · answer #2 · answered by voidedius 3 · 0 0

Latitude measures distance north or south of the Equator (the band of 0 degrees latitude that runs east and west around the middle of the Earth). Each latitude line forms an imaginary circle around the Earth. Because these circles are parallel to the Equator, they are sometimes called parallels. The farther the circles are from the Equator, the smaller they are, until they become points at the North and South Poles. The latitude of the North Pole is 90 degrees north, and that of the South Pole is 90 degrees south. A location’s latitude is measured in degrees. If you could draw one line from the location to the center of the Earth and a second line from the Equator to the center of the Earth, the angle between those lines would equal the latitude of the location.

Longitude measures distance east or west of an imaginary band running from the North Pole through Greenwich, England, to the South Pole. This imaginary band defines 0 degrees longitude and is called the prime meridian. Other longitude lines are sometimes referred to as meridians. All longitude lines meet at the North and South Poles.

2007-01-12 15:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by Y 2 · 0 0

Latitude is fatitude, it start around the middle, at the equator.

2007-01-12 13:26:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Equator

2007-01-12 16:38:21 · answer #5 · answered by andrea H 1 · 0 0

Where Does Latitude Start

2017-02-24 05:47:16 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

On the Equator where 0 intersects it directly under Greenwich in London.

2007-01-12 13:25:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Halfway between the north and south poles: the equator.

2007-01-12 13:25:18 · answer #8 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 0 0

the equator............

2007-01-12 13:25:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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