Meridian or longitudes and locating place on the globe

The Meridien which passes through Greenwich was taken as the _______

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

• north pole

The equator is used as the line of reference for locating places in the _______

• North & south

• East & west

We need another line or point as reference for locating places in the ___ direction

• North & south

• East & West

The network of parallels and meridians on the surface of the globe is known as _______

• Prime meridian

• parallel of latitudes

• Graticule

• Equator

Name one of the following parallels of latitude as tropic of cancer

• 0 degree

• 0 degree 30's

• 23 degree 30'N

The equator lies at the ______ degree latitude

• 2

• 1

• 0

The prime meridian passes through

• Greenwood

• Greenfield

• Greenwhich

• Greenwich

The tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn are of _______

• Equal length

• Capricorn is shorter than the cancer

• Capricorn is bigger than the cancer

• Very big difference between these two

Equator is an

• imaginary rectangular line

• imaginary circular line

• imaginary straight line

• imaginary triangular line

The total number of meridians across the globe is _______

• 180

• 360

• 90

• 181