The Earth and the Graticule Class 6 Extra Questions and Answers Notes
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1.) Where is the Taj Mahal located among the following cities ?
(Kolkata / agra / delhi / lucknow )
A:- AGRA
2.) What is the length of earth east to west ?
A:- The length of the earth from east to west is about 12756 Kilometres.
3.) What is the length of the north to south?
A:- The length of earth from north to south is about 12714 Kilometres.
4.) Why geographers make globes ?
A:- In the real world, it is not possible to measure the length of the earth because there are sea hills forest houses etc . so the geographers created a small model of the earth for this difficulty and called it the globe .
5.) Write a use of the globe ?
A:- Globe are used to determine locations of a place on the earth.
6.) The location of any place on the earth is determined by ______________ .
A:- the reference to the centre of the earth
7.) What is latitude or parallels ?
A:- If many circles are drawn at different angles from the center of the earth and each is parallel to each other, then it is called parallels or latitude.
8.) The values of parallels are angular measures expressed in _______ .
A:- Degree
9.) ________ is the largest parallel, and a great circle.
A:- 0 degree
10.) What is northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere?
A:- The equator bisects the earth into north and south parts. The one to the north is called the northern hemisphere while the one to the south is called the southern hemisphere .
11.) What is meridian?
A:- If a line is drawn vertically from the north pole to south pole of the earth it is called meridian or longitude.
12.) The zero degree meridian is called _________.
A:- Prime meridian
13.) The distance between any two adjacent parallels is ________ on the surface of the earth.
A:- 111 km
14.) What is graticule ?
A:- The parallels and meridians on the globe form a net that is called a graticule.
15.) Which are the two imaginary lines that divide the earth into hemispheres?
A:- parallels and meridians
16.) Write down the full from
IRNSS – (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System),
GIS – Geographic information system.
GPS – Global processing system.
ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation.