Geography: The Imaginary Lines Of Latitude

People who used maps are Cartographers. They use imaginary lines to indicate the exact location of a certain place. Lines of Latitude describes how far a place from north or south of the equator . It is measured by degrees . the North Pole is at 90 degrees north and the South Pole is at 90 degrees south. The equator is zero degree latitude. It is an imaginary line encircling the globe midway between the North and South Poles. It divides the Earth into two. North of the equator is Northern Hemisphere and south of the equator is the Southern Hemisphere. A circle that joins places of the same latitude at Earth’s surface is called parallel of latitude.

Lines of Longitude measures the position east or west of an imaginary line. It is drawn from

On the southwest is Mediterranean and the Black Seat, while Europe on the west. Asia is separated from North America to the northeast by the Bering Strait while Australia to the southeast with the seas and straits connecting the Indian and Pacific oceans. The Isthmus of Suez unites Asia with Africa, and it is generally agreed that the Suez Canal , a man made structure, forms the border between Asia and Africa. Two narrow straits, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, separate Anatolia from the Balkan Peninsula.

The land boundary between Asia and Europe is a historical and cultural creation that has been defined in different ways. The most convenient geographic boundary is a line that runs south from the Arctic Ocean along the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains and then turns southwest along the Emba River to the northern shore of the Caspian Sea.

The total area of Asia, including the Caucasian isthmus, amounts to roughly one-third of the land surface of the Earth. The islands including the Japanese islands, Taiwan, the Indonesian islands, Sakhalin and other Asian Russian islands, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, and numerous smaller islands account for about 7 percent of the

With its constant movement, Asia’s evolution began almost four billion years ago, at present more than half of the continent remains seismically active. In some places, new land is continuously emerging and is added to the bulk of the continent by constant collisions of the island arcs with the mainland. Asia also contains the greatest mountain mass on the Earth’s surface. The Plateau of Tibet and the bordering mountains of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush and mountain ranges located in Central Asia. Because of its massive size and relative youth, Asia contains many of the extremes of the Earth’s land surface, such as its highest and lowest points, longest coastline, and largest area of continental shelf. Asia’s huge mountain ranges, varied coastline, and vast continental plains and basins have had a profound effect on the course of human history. The fact that Asia produces about half of the world’s petroleum , in addition to being a significant contributor to the global production of various minerals, it is heavily emphasized the importance of its geology for the welfare of the world’s