24/4/24 latitudes longitudes and atmospheres Flashcards
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Which latitude is the biggest Circle?
Equator
The lines of the latitudes are
Parallel to each other
Distance between the two latitudes is
111 km
What is latitude?
Latitudes help you in getting the information about different temperature zones over earth
What is the area between two latitudes called?
Zone
The latitude about the equator are called northern hemisphere latitudes
Indicated by N
Latitudes forms a
A complete circle over earth
What is the total number of degrees in latitude?
181 including the equator
What is called the Tropic of cancer?
It is the latitude formed at 23.5° northern hemisphere
What is called Tropic of Capricorn?
What is the latitude formed at 23.5° South
What is tropical zone?
The zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn is called tropical zone because this zone receives immense amount of it throughout the year. That’s why any country or part lying in the zone will never have winter that’s why this zone is called tropical zone
What is called a frigid zone
There is zone between 66.5°, North Arctic Circle and 90° north S zone between 66.5°, South Antarctic Circle and 90° South have extremely cold temperatures. That’s why it is called frigid zone
What is the temperate zone?
Don’t lies between the 23.5° North and 66.5° North Artic circle same way temperate zone lies between 23.5°, South Tropic of Capricorn and 66.5° Antarctic Circle reason for receive extreme season
What is called and latitude?
Latitude is the distance on the Earth surface north or South of the equator expressed in angular measurement is 0° and equal to 90°. In simple words latitudes are the parallel lines running from east to west or vice versa.
What is called Tropic of Cancer?
The line joining both the points of 23.5° in the northern hemisphere is called the Tropic of Cancer.
The countries which lie on the Tropic of Cancer
Mexico, Bahamas, Mauritania western Sahara Mali Algeria, Niger, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE Oman India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Taiwan
What are the two North American countries Tropic of Cancer?
Mexico and Bahamas
what is called the Tropic of Capricorn
The line joining both the finals of 23.5° in the Southern hemisphere is called Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the countries present in the Tropic of Capricorn?
Chile Argentina, Paraguay Brazil, Namibia, Botswana South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Australia, and French Polynesia
What is equator?
A line notionally drawn on this earth equal distance from the polls, dividing the Earth into northern and Southern hemispheres, and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
The countries falling on the equator or
Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon Republic of Congo, democratic republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati
What are the seven countries penetrated by the Artic circle?
USA, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden and Finland Russia
What is the longitude?
Longitudes are the imaginary lines which ran from poles to poles. These are not the parallel lines. The distance between the two longitude increases as one move from poles to equator. The distance between two longitudes is maximum at equator and minimum at the poles.
What is called the greenwich line?
 0° land line is called the prime meridian . Greenwich line as it passes for the greenwich line of England. This line is used for a time calculation of the various countries over the globe.
