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Degrees are measures of angles. Picture a Pizza cut into 360 tiny pieces. The point on the end of each piece has an angle of exactly one degree because a circle has 360 degrees in it. Sometimes im math, science, cartography, navigation, and engineering, we have to be more exact than degrees, so we use minutes. There are 60 minutes in one degree, so a pizza cut into minutes would have 21600 pieces. If you need to get even smaller,there are seconds. There are (you guessed it) 60 seconds per minute. Degrees and minutes are used in geography to define world coordinates. The globe is has a line running from the North Ple to the South Pole running through London, England called the Prime Meridian. From here, other lines are drawn from north to south one degree away from each other, labeled one degree, two gegree, ad so on until the 180 degree line is drawn on the opposite side of the world. Then it stars going down until it reaches zero again at the Prime Meridian. These are the longitudes. Latitudes start with zero at the equator. Latitudes are made up of rings moving up the earth until 90 degrees at the North Pole. The same going south to the South Pole. Between degrees, there are minutes and seconds, so locations on earth can be pin pointed very acurately.
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What is each degree of latitude or longitude further subdivided into?
Minutes (1/60 of a degree) and seconds (1/60 of a minutes). After that you use decimals of a second.
One degree of longitude equals how many seconds?
For every degree of longitude, is divided into 60 minutes. Each minute is then divided into 60 seconds. Since 1 degree equals 60 nautical miles. Then 1 minute equals 1 nautical mile Then 1 second equals approximately 35 yards across.
How many seconds are there in one degree of longitude?
There are 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute, so a degree has 3600 seconds. These are arc minutes and seconds, no relation to time measurements. A circle has 360 degrees.
What does minutes degrees and second mean in relationship to longitude and latitude?
Minutes, degrees, and seconds are units used to measure coordinates in longitude and latitude. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute is further divided into 60 seconds. For example, a coordinate might be expressed as 45 degrees 30 minutes 20 seconds, indicating a specific point on the Earth's surface in the coordinate system.
Is each degree of latitude divided into 360 minutes?
A "line" of latitude is a circle that goes all the way around the earth, parallel to the equator. The "line" is made up of all the points on Earth that have the same latitude, and any latitude you name makes a different "line". The"line" is not divided up into any parts. Latitude is an angle. Latitudes are described in units of angles, usually degrees and parts of a degree. There are 60 minutes in one degree of angle, and 60 seconds in one minute of angle.
