Answer the following questions briefly:
(a) What is the true shape of the earth?
(b) What is a globe?
(c) What is the lalitudinal value of the Tropic of cancer?
(d) What are three heat zones of the Earth?
(e) What is the difference between the paralles of latitude and the meridians of longitude ?
(f) Why does the torrid zone receive maximum amount of heat?
(g) Why is it 5.30 p.m. in India and 12.00 noon in London?
Tick the correct answers:
(a) The value of the prime meridian is
(i) 90° (ii) 0° (iii) 60°
(b) The frigid zone lies near
(i) the Poles (ii) the Equator
(iii) the Tropic of Cancer
(c) The total number of Ingitudes are
(i) 360 (ii) 180 (in) 90
(d) The Antarctic circle is located in
(i) the Northern hemisphere
(ii) the Southern hemisphere
(iii) the Eastern hemisphere
(e) Grid is a network of
(i) parallels of latitudes and merdians of longitudes
(ii) the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
(iii) the North Pole and the South Pole.
Fill in the blanks:
(a) The Tropic of Capricorn is located at ............... .
(b) The Standard meridian of India is ..................... .
(c) The 0° Meridian is also known as ................... .
(d) The distance between the longitudes decreases towards .......... .
(e) The Arctic Circle is located in the ................ hemisphere.