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Lines of longitude.

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The vertical lines around our globe are called longitudes or meridians. They help determine a location's east-west position on Earth and are measured in degrees east or west of the prime meridian.

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What are the imaginary lines on the globe and map?

The horizontal lines are called latitudes and the vertical lines are called longitudes.


What are the lines on a globe named?

they are called lines of LONGITUDE ( the vertical or up and down lines) and LATITUDE (the horizontal or side to side lines)


What do you call the vertical lines around the globe?

meridians or lines of longitude


Lines that run across the globe east to west are called lines of?

The imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England is called Prime Meridian. Lines of Latitude encircle the globe horizantally (with the north pole at the top) Lines of Longitude are the vertical lines (with the north pole ar the top)


What do the vertical and horizontal lines in the globe indicated?

latitude and longitude


What are vertical lines called?

They are simply just called lines.


Parts of the globe?

There are two different types of lines: lines of latitude and lines of longitude (also called meridians). The lines of latitude go around the globe horizontally. The center line is the Equator. Lines of longitude go around the globe vertically. The center one is called the Prime Meridian. These different lines together form a grid on a globe that's used to find locations of Earth's surface. The Equator and the Prime Meridian also divide the Earth into Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western hemispheres.


What are the imaginary lines drawn on the globe around the arctic and the antarctic called?

They are called the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle.


What is the difference between longiltude and latitude?

Longitude are the vertical lines found in a map or globe while latitude are the horizontal lines.


What is the name for all the vertical and horizontal lines found on a globe?

They are lines of longitude and latitude, often just longitudes and latitudes.


What are imaginary vertical lines called?

longitude lines?


The horizontal lines are called the lines of what?

On the globe they are called lines of LATITUDE and are parallel to the equator.