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What lines of latittude are called?
Parallels of Latitude
What are parallels on a map?
Parallels are lines that run the same direction and are the always the same distance apart. On a map (and the Earth) the lines of latitude (measurement North and South of the equator) are parallel.
What is another name for parallel lines?
latitude lines is another name for parallels and longitude lines are called meridians
What are lines that meat at right angles?
Perpendicular lines meet at right angles
The lines of latitude are also known as parallels true or false?
True
What are Imaginary lines which run at right angles to the equator?
They are lines of constant latitude, all parallel to the equator.
What angle do lines of longitude cross with lines of latitude?
Meridians of constant longitude cross parallels of constant latitude. Parallels of constant latitude cross meridians of constant longitude. At each intersection of a meridian and a parallel, the lines are perpendicular (form 90° angles).
Lines of latitude are also called what?
Parallels and meridians. Circles parallel to the Equator (lines running east and west) are parallels of latitude. They are used to measure degrees of latitude north or south of the Equator. Meridians of longitude are drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole and are at right angles to the Equator.
A basic geography questions - Do all of the parallels and the meridians cross each other at right angles on both the globe and Mercator?
On a globe, parallels and meridians do not intersect at right angles; only the equator and the prime meridian intersect perpendicular to each other. On a Mercator projection map, the meridians appear as straight lines converging at the poles, while the parallels are equally spaced horizontally, giving the illusion that they intersect at right angles, when in reality that is not the case.
The prime meridian is an imaginary line from which lines of what?
The Prime Meridian is an imaginary line. All longitudes are reckoned as angles from it, and all parallels of latitude cross it.
What is a mercator projecter?
A cylindrical map projection in which the meridians and parallels of latitude appear as lines crossing at right angles and in which areas appear greater farther from the equator.conic
On what map projection do both meridians and parallels appear as straight lines intersecting each other at right angles?
Cylindrical
Lines of latiude are called?
Parallels
Why are parallels important?
They are lines of Latitude.
What Parallel lines on maps?
Lines of latitude are known as parallels.
Are longitudes and latitudes parallels lines?
Latitude lines are parallel but not longitude lines.
What are the parallels and latitudes on maps?
Parallels are lines that go up and down the map, latitudes are lines that go across the map from side to side.
