Finding Places I - Globe
Q.1. What was the belief of Ancient people about the earth?
Q.2. Who first said that the earth is round? What were his views about the solar system?
Q.3. Who proved that the earth is round? How?
Q.4. What are the flattened points on both sides of the Earth called? Name two such points?
Q.5. What is a globe?
Q.6. What is the purpose of the globe?
Q.7. What is the axis of a globe?
Q.8. What are oceans? Name four oceans?
Q.9. What is the color of water bodies on the globe?
Q.10. What are the large masses of land called?
Q.11. How many continents are there?
Q.12. Name all the continents?
Q.13. What is the location of the North Pole?
Q.14. What is the location of the south pole?
Q.15. Which line divides the earth into two equal halves?
Q.16. What are hemispheres? Name the two hemispheres of the earth?
Q.17. What are latitudes? What is the other name for latitudes?
Q.18. How does the length of latitudes differ from place to place?
Q.19. Which is the longest and which is the shortest latitude?
Q.20. How do we identify latitudes from place to place?
Q.21. What are the names of six important latitudes of the Earth?
Q.22. What are longitudes? What is the other name of longitudes?
Q.23. Which important decision was taken about longitudes in 1884?
Q.24. What are the two names of the 0o longitude?
Q.25. How many latitudes are there?
Q.26. How many longitudes are there?
Q.27. How are the meridians numbered?
Q.28. What is a grid? How is it helpful?
