Question

The meeting of longitude and latitude lines produces a location known as A . The coordinates in degrees B . The prime meridian C . The relative locations D . The equator

Answer 1

It is either the coordinates in degrees or the prime meridian

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is A. The meeting of longitude and latitude lines produces a location known as the coordinates in degrees.

Explanation:

Geographic coordinates are a reference system that allows each location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen, in general, so that two of the references represent a horizontal position and a third represents the altitude. The horizontal position coordinates used are latitude and longitude, a spherical angular coordinate system whose center is the center of the Earth and is usually expressed in sexagesimal degrees:

-The latitude of a point on the Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the line that passes through this point and the center of the Earth. All points with the same latitude form a plane parallel to the plane of the equator. The equator is the 0 ° parallel and divides the globe into North and South; thus the north pole is 90 ° N and the south pole is 90 ° S.

-The longitude of a point on the Earth's surface is the angle between the reference meridian and the meridian that passes through this point. The mostly accepted reference meridian is the meridian that passes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, located southeast of London, England. This first meridian determines the eastern and western hemispheres. The long lines form maximum semicircles that pass through the poles and are called meridians.