Does latitude measure the angular distance of places North and South of the equator?

Question

And does longitude measure the angular distance of places east and west of the Prime Meridian?

Answer 1

5 for 5!

and here's your bonus question:

Go look up the Earths CIRCUMFRENCE ( I said diameter at first; my bad!)

divide by the 60 minutes in a degree.

then divide by the 360 degrees in a circle.

the answer is......

a Nautical Mile......(THATS where they got that!)

so a ( nautical) mile is a minute ( of Latitude)

Answer 2

yes.
latitude measures how far something is north or south of the equator, so 45 degrees N or S, would be 25% of the way down or up the planet roughly

Answer 3

Yup!