GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Tropic of Capricorn
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Equator
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Prime Meridian
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Tropic of Cancer
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Detailed explanation-1: -The prime meridian is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth. The prime meridian is arbitrary, meaning it could be chosen to be anywhere. Any line of longitude (a meridian) can serve as the 0° longitude line.
Detailed explanation-2: -The equator is the starting point for measuring latitude–that’s why it’s marked as 0 degrees latitude. The number of latitude degrees will be larger the further away from the equator the place is located, all the way up to 90 degrees latitude at the poles.
Detailed explanation-3: -A prime meridian is an arbitrary meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together, a prime meridian and its anti-meridian (the 180th meridian in a 360°-system) form a great circle.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Greenwich Meridian was chosen as the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884. Forty-one delegates from 25 nations met in Washington DC for the International Meridian Conference.