Earth’s grid or coordinate system can be described and determined by means of the position or location of any place on the Earth's surface.
Latitude is the measurement on a globe or map of a place north or south of the equator. It is measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds.
The greatest possible latitudes are 90° N and 90° S.
The equator is also called the great circle around the Earth that is equidistant from the geographic poles and lies in a plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis.
The lines of latitude are also known as parallels of latitude. That is because the lines of latitude are parallel to the equator and to each other.
Lines of Latitude
A) Arctic Circle
B) Tropic of Cancer
C) Equator
D) Tropic of Capricorn
E) Arctic Circle
The part of the world between these two parallel lines is called the tropics.
Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is the northern temperate zone
Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Arctic Circle is the southern temperate zone
Lines which run from north to south are called longitudes. The longitude which passes through Greenwich, England is called the prime meridian.
