ICSE Class 10 Answered

LATITUDE

LONGITUDE

• Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the equator.

• Longitude is the measurement of distance east or west of prime meridian.

• It is referred to as parallelism.

• It is referred to as meridians.

• The lines are of various lengths.

• The lines are all the same length.

• It divides the world into heat zones.

• It is used to categorise time zones.

• There are 180 lines of latitude.

• There are 360 lines of longitude.

• It classifies heat zones.

• It classifies time zones.