GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Latitude lines start at the equator (0 degrees latitude) and run east and west, parallel to the equator. Lines of latitude are measured in degrees north or south of the equator to 90 degrees at the North or South poles.

Detailed explanation-2: -They are named after the angle created by a line connecting the latitude and the center of the Earth, and the line connecting the equator and the center of the Earth. Latitudes specify the north-south position of a location on the globe.

Detailed explanation-3: -The name is derived from medieval Latin word aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis, meaning ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from the Latin word aequare ‘make equal’.