Which way do lines of longitude run and what do they measure??

Answer 1

They go north and south from the North Pole to the South Pole.

They don't really measure anything, per se. They are used to be able to identify points on the Earth's surface. Longitude changes as you go east and west. However, because the Earth is a sphere, longitude lines are further apart at the equator than they are anywhere else. (At the two poles, they all come together to a point at the actual pole.)

The Prime Meridian, the 0 line of longitude, passes through Greenwich, England (which is southeast of London).

Answer 2

Longitude Lines Run

Answer 3

Just to add to "Photojim". The longitude and latitude lines are for reference. With the help of satelite technology you can give a coordinance of longitude and latitude readings and pinpoint anywhere on the planet...The longitude lines will run together at the north and south poles. The place where the lines would be the furthest apart is on the Equater....There they will be 69.16 miles apart....The earth is divided into 360 degrees, so each line is 1 degree. So at the Equater you can multiply 69.16 times 360 and see that the earth has a circumference of 24,897.6 miles.

Answer 4

Longitude lines are the longer ones - they all go all the way around including the pole. Lattitude lines vary in size and some (89 north and 89 south, for example) are quite small circles.

Longitude measures how far around the earth - east or west - you are from the prime meridian in Greenwich in Europe. In degrees, so 180 would be on the exact opposite side from Greenwich.

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In "minutes" and "seconds" east and west of the PRIME MERIDIAN which runs through Greenwich, England, also called th4e GREENWICH MERIDIAN or 0 degrees Longitude. The numbers of miles in a minute and in a second VARY and are at a maximum at the equator.

Answer 7

The imaginary lines are drawn on the Globe representing the Earth.Several vertical lines from North to south poles drawn .The earth being spherical, the total of degrees comes to 360 .If we draw 360 equi-distant lines vertically from one pole to another the time difference between two such lines , i.e., for each degree is 4 minutes .......may be plus or minus......depending on moving eastward or westward to know the time of a place compared to GMT.ok?

Answer 8

East and west of the Prime Meridian. Is this your homework?