What does latitude and longitude mean?

Question

What do they mean? please help me!

Answer 1

latitude= east to west longitude=north to south on the globe. they are both Greek words.

Answer 2

these are imaginary lines to mark out locatiosn on earth... latitude is horizontal and longtitude is vertical.

Answer 3

Latitude, gives the location of a place on Earth (or other planetary body) north or south of the equator. Lines of Latitude are the horizontal lines shown running east-to-west on maps. Technically, latitude is an angular measurement in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the equator (low latitude) to 90° at the poles (90° N for the North Pole or 90° S for the South Pole; high latitude). The complementary angle of a latitude is called the colatitude.

Longitude, is the east-west (Side to Side) geographic coordinate measurement most commonly used in cartography and global navigation. A line of longitude is a meridian and half of a great circle.

Answer 4

Latitude and longitude are measures of position on the earths spherical surface. They are angular measures, taken as an angle from the earths center. Imagine a basketball, it has a pip in the grain that defines the top pole and bottom pole. This is where you spin it most easily. The earth is the same, it rotates around an axis. The equator is then the fatest part of the sphere. The equator is defined to be 0 degrees of lattitude, the poles are then 90 degrees north and south lattitude.

Longitude is a bit more arbitrary. A prime meridian is defined to exist, it is a line running between the north and south poles and passing through Greenwich England. This is defined to be 0 degrees of longitude. Since the earth is a sphere, there are 360 degrees of longitude around the circumfrence of the sphere. longitude is defined to be east and west, so for example, Chicago is located at 42 degrees north lattitude, 87 degrees west longitude. Using these two coordinates, any location on the surface of the earth can be defined.

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Answer 5

latitude is the invisible lines going from east to west longitude it north to south....so gps uses this to locate a position on map the equator is zero