Vertical lines around a globe are also called what?

Question

Vertical lines around a globe are also called what?

Answer 1

Longitude - assuming your globe is oriented coventionally with the north rotational axis on top and south on the bottom.  The other lines are lines of latitude.

The easy way to remember the difference is that LONGitude lines are always long - they run pole to pole.  Latitude lines get shorter as they approach the poles.

Answer 2

vertical lines around a globe are also called longitudes.

Longitude is a bit more complex because, unlike the equator, there is no obvious choice for a reference point.  All the Great Circles running from N to S around the globe have the same circumference.  After many decades of disagreement, the Great Circle running through Greenwich, England was arbitrarily chosen as the zero line of longitude.

Answer 3

lines of longitude (or meridians), divided into east and west by the prime meridian (0degrees) and 180 degrees, which also acts, more or less, as the international date line

Answer 4

If you mean those going north-south, they are called meridians. Longitude is the position north south. Those lines going east-west and the longest of which is the equator are called parallels (or parallel line) and the opposite to longitude is the latitude. Capito?