Question

What are the equator and the prime meridian?

Answer 1

Hint: The earth is a globe that can be divided into many latitudes and longitude lines. Longitude lines run north and south and measure east and west; latitude lines run east and west and measure north and south. The lines are used to calculate distances in degrees.

Complete answer:
The main distinction between the Equator and the Prime Meridian is that the Equator is a line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South poles, whereas the Prime Meridian runs through Greenwich, England.

The Equator is the imaginary line that circles the globe in the middle. The term 'equator' refers to a line drawn around a sphere or planet (not a real one).

The imaginary line drawn north to south at 0° longitude is known as the Prime Meridian. It is the starting point for measuring distances around the Earth, both west and east.

We can divide the world into four hemispheres, north, south, east, and west, by using the equator and prime meridian. For example, the United States is in both the Western and Northern Hemispheres (due to its location west of the prime meridian) (because it is north of the equator).

Note: The equator is marked on the earliest maps, but the prime meridian is not named until the late 19th century. Until that time, as many as 14 different locations were labelled as 0 degrees longitude on various maps. The International Meridian Conference of 1884 changed all of that, naming the prime meridian as an imaginary line drawn through Greenwich, England.