Understanding Latitude and Longitude
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Question 1: Who devised the first system for locating geographical positions using latitude and longitude?
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Hipparchus
Galileo
Question 2: What is the starting point for measuring longitude?
Equator
Prime Meridian
Tropic of Cancer
Antarctic Circle
Question 3: How are lines of latitude also known?
Meridians
Equators
Parallels
Circles
Question 4: What is the significance of the equator in terms of latitude?
It's at 90 degrees latitude.
It's zero degrees latitude.
It defines the Arctic Circle.
It separates the two hemispheres.
Question 5: How many minutes are in one degree of latitude or longitude?
30
45
60
100
Question 6: What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn's significance?
They mark the poles.
They define the temperate zones.
They mark boundaries of the tropics.
They are equatorial lines.
Question 7: What is the antipodal meridian of the Prime Meridian?
90 degrees east
180 degrees west and east
0 degrees
90 degrees west