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A difference of 15 degrees of longitude equals how much local time?Read the answer and worked solution →A place is two hours ahead in local time. How many degrees apart is its longitude?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the range of longitude values on Earth?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Greek astronomer divided the Earth into 360 degrees?Read the answer and worked solution →Ptolemy placed his prime meridian through which islands?Read the answer and worked solution →Which British Act of 1714 offered rewards for a way to find longitude at sea?Read the answer and worked solution →Who built the chronometers that helped solve the problem of longitude at sea?Read the answer and worked solution →Which system replaced radio navigation for commercial shipping in the early 1990s?Read the answer and worked solution →Into how many minutes is each degree of longitude divided?Read the answer and worked solution →The 180th meridian, opposite the prime meridian, is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ancient Indian text placed the prime meridian through Ujjain?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was Greenwich chosen as the world's prime meridian?Read the answer and worked solution →Where was the International Meridian Conference of 1884 held?Read the answer and worked solution →Who established the position of the historic Greenwich prime meridian in 1851?Read the answer and worked solution →Since 1984, which meridian has been the international standard prime meridian?Read the answer and worked solution →Unlike the Equator, the prime meridian is astronomically what?Read the answer and worked solution →Before Greenwich, most European countries took their prime meridian through what?Read the answer and worked solution →The International Date Line is based on which line of longitude?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tropic of Cancer is the northernmost circle of latitude where what happens?Read the answer and worked solution →On which solstice is the Sun overhead at the Tropic of Cancer?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the southern counterpart of the Tropic of Cancer called?Read the answer and worked solution →The Greek word tropē, from which tropic comes, means what?Read the answer and worked solution →What fixes the positions of the two tropics relative to the Equator?Read the answer and worked solution →About how large was Earth's axial tilt as of the year 2000?Read the answer and worked solution →The region between the two tropics is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the natural environment encompass?Read the answer and worked solution →Urban settings and farmland conversion are examples of which environment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sphere corresponds to the rocks of the Earth?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sphere of the Earth corresponds to water?Read the answer and worked solution →The biosphere corresponds to which part of the natural environment?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A difference of 15 degrees of longitude equals how much local time?

  1. One day
  2. One minute
  3. Four hours
  4. One hour
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Correct answer: D. One hour

1. The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours. 2. So each 15 degrees of longitude is one hour of local time. 3. Four hours would need 60 degrees, so that option fails. _Source: Wikipedia, Longitude, Lead section_

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A place is two hours ahead in local time. How many degrees apart is its longitude?

  1. 15 degrees
  2. 60 degrees
  3. 45 degrees
  4. 30 degrees
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Correct answer: D. 30 degrees

1. Each hour of time difference equals 15 degrees of longitude. 2. Two hours is 2 x 15 = 30 degrees. 3. 15 degrees is only one hour and 60 degrees is four hours. _Source: Wikipedia, Longitude, Determination_

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What is the range of longitude values on Earth?

  1. 0 to 90 degrees east
  2. 0 to 360 degrees
  3. -90 to +90 degrees
  4. -180 to +180 degrees
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Correct answer: D. -180 to +180 degrees

1. Longitude is measured from the prime meridian at 0 degrees. 2. It runs 180 degrees west and 180 degrees east. 3. The -90 to +90 range is for latitude. _Source: Wikipedia, Longitude, Values_

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