{"id":86064,"date":"2021-11-24T13:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=86064"},"modified":"2021-11-24T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:07:30","slug":"degrees-on-a-map-are-divided-into-60-equal-parts-what-are-these-parts-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/degrees-on-a-map-are-divided-into-60-equal-parts-what-are-these-parts-called\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees on a map are divided into 60 equal parts. What are these parts called?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. Days<br \/>\nB. Seconds<br \/>\n<strong>C. Minutes<\/strong><br \/>\nD. Hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To precisely locate points on the earth&#8217;s surface, use latitude and longitude coordinates. Degrees are divided into 60 equal parts called\u00a0<b>minutes (&#8216;)<\/b>\u00a0and those are further divided into 60 equal parts called seconds (&#8220;). Do not confuse these units of measurement with units of time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Days B. Seconds C. Minutes D. Hours Explanation: To precisely locate points on the earth&#8217;s surface, use latitude and longitude coordinates. Degrees are divided into 60 equal parts called\u00a0minutes (&#8216;)\u00a0and those are further divided into 60 equal parts called seconds (&#8220;). Do not confuse these units of measurement with units of time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[26728],"class_list":{"0":"post-86064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs","8":"tag-geography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}