what is the difference between longitude and latitude?

Answer 1

Latitude goes West-East. Longitude goes North-South.

Answer 2

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.

Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda),[1][2] 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.

Answer 3

latitude is how far north or south something is, going from east to west, examples of lines of latitude are the equator and the Arctic Circle. Longitude is a line showing how far east or west something is, going from north to south, an example is Greenwich Mean Time.

Answer 4

longitude are the lines on the map you see going from the north to the south pole.Latitude are the lines you see going around the world horazontally. Latitude includes the equator and longitute includes the prime meridian

Answer 5

Latitude is as a horizontal line from north to south of the Equator. Lines of latitude are often referred to as parallels.

Longitude is as a vertical line from east to west of the Prime (Greenwich) Meridian.
Lines of longitude are often referred to as meridians.

Answer 6

What jfb said is right. So Latitude goes across the globe and longitude goes from top to bottom.

Answer 7

think lat is fat. it goes east-west, but measured north-south(10 degrees north)

longitude goes north-south, but is measured east, west (10 degrees east)

Answer 8

LATITUDE FATITUDE remember that kid and you wont mess up