ICSE Class 9 Answered

Characteristics of atitudes are:

• Latitude is the angular distance of a place north or south of the Equator.
• There are 180 parallels of latitudes apart from the Equator.
• Each parallel of latitude is a circle.
• Only the Equator is a Great Circle, all the rest of the latitudes are Small Circles.
• The distance between two latitudes is always equal.