Question

India’s latitudinal and longitudinal extent measured in degrees is almost the same, but its north-south extent measured in km is greater than its east-west extent. This is due to the fact that ___________.

Option a: longitudes are not parallel lines
Option b: the distance between altitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join
Option c: all longitudes with their opposites from great circles
Option d: the earth is not in perfect shape

Answer 1

Hint: Latitudes are the imaginary lines which are drawn west to east and are parallel to the equator. Equator is known as zero degree latitude. Longitudes are those imaginary lines which are drawn north to south. Longitudes are used to measure time.

Complete answer: India’s latitudinal and longitudinal extent measured in degrees is almost the same, but its north-south extent measured in km is greater than its east-west extent. This is due to the fact that the distance between altitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join.
India lies in the northern hemisphere. India’s latitudinal extent is sixty eight degree seven minute east to ninety seven degree and twenty five minutes east. India’s longitudinal extent is eight degrees four minute north to thirty seven degrees and six minutes north. Latitudes and longitudes are used to find any location in the world. The measurement of distance between north to south is 3214 km and the distance between east to west is 2933 km.
Option b is the correct answer to this question because the distance between altitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join.

Note: Our country is situated in the northeastern hemisphere of the world. Zero degree latitude is called the equator. Twenty three and half degree latitude in the northern hemisphere is known as the tropic of cancer and twenty three and half degree latitude in the southern hemisphere is known as the tropic of capricorn.