Simple Explanation of Latitude and Longitude..?

Question

im 13, I dont really understand it. Thanks..

and any sights I can practice it on..?

THANKS

Answer 1

Check out http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/goo... and http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.... to get a better idea of latitude and longitude.

Latitude measures how far north or south you are from the Equator.

Longitude measures how far east or west you are from the Prime Meridian, which runs through the North Pole, the South Pole, and Greenwich, England.

Both latitude and longitude are measured in degrees, where there are 360 degrees in a circle.

Answer 2

You can draw many lines from the north to the south pole.  If you assume that the first line passes through one place in England, then all the other lines would be to the east of west of it.  How far east or west would be the longitude.  How far from the equator you are on the line you draw from the north to the south pole is called the latitude.

The point where the longitude line (how far west or east of that place in England) and the latitude line (how far north or south of the equator) cross is your location using longitude and latitude and there is only one point on the earth with your values.

Answer 3

Latitude and Longitude are measurement lines used to give locations on earth (as you might see on a map or used in a GPS) They range from 0* at the equator to 90* on the North and South Poles.

Latitude being the North and South lines, Longitude being the East and West lines.

Answer 4

Latitude are the lines that go around the world.  Degrees of latitude are 69 miles apart.  Latitude starts as 0° at the equator and ends as 90° at the poles.  Degrees are divided like a clock into 60 minutes (') and 60 seconds (") to help pinpoint a place between the 69 mile lines.  

(Ex.  30° 30' 00" N).  

30°x 69 = 2070 miles, 30' x 1/2 of 69 = 34.5 miles for a total of 2104.5 miles above the equator. N means northern hemisphere.

Longitude lines go up and down and look like lines on a basketball or a peeled orange.  They are about the same distance as latitude lines at the equator but slowly move closer together until they converge at the poles.  Longitude lines are read the same as latitude except they have 180° because they are not divided into north and south hemispheres. (W) for west (E) for east.

Ex.  Latitude 30° 30' 00" N, Longitude 110° 20' 00" W (Latitude is always listed first.)  Click the link below to find out the example location.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ge...

Answer 5

Longitude lines are long--they go from top to bottom.  Latitude lines are flat--they go from side to side.  That's how I remembered it when I was learning.  

The Equator is 0 latititude, The Greenwich meridian is just the longitude of the place (Greenwich England) that decided how to number longitudes.