The position of a place north or south of the equator is described
in terms of its latitude. Since we're talking about the surface of
a sphere, latitude is an angle, and its value is given in angle
measure.
Any unit of angle is fine ... degrees, radians, grads, etc., and if
you're given an angle in one unit, you can always easily change
it to a unit that you like better ... but 'degrees' has been the unit
used most often for latitude, and longitude too, practically since
the whole system was invented a few hundred years ago.
For parts of an angle smaller than a whole degree, 1/60 of a
degree (minutes) and 1/3600 of a degree (seconds) were used
traditionally for the first couple hundred years. But that ponderous,
inconvenient system is rapidly giving way now to plain old decimal
degrees, probably because those are easier for the computer to handle.
cause weather is just like that lol
Answer:
As given below.
Explanation:
1. <u>False</u>, as the number of daylight hours on the globe are mapped by the location f places over the various latitudes and altitudes. And the sun is not with the same both rise and set at both the hemispheres.
2. <u>Yes</u>, there exist changes of 12 hours in sunlight and darkness on earth due to the rotational speed of the earth on its axis as the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees so in both the hemisphere there exists equinoxes and solstices.
3. <u>True</u>, as the known fact the earth rotates in anticlockwise direction hence the eastern side gets to see the sun first and western side later this rule applies everywhere in the earth on both the equinoxes.
4. <u>True</u>, The celestial poles and equator are two points on earth that represent the equinoxes and the point that falls directly over the poles is called the zenith and the plane that touches is called the galactic plane.
