Globe: The model of the Earth

 Globe: The Model of the Earth

Q.1. What is the equatorial diameter of the Earth?

Q.2. What is the polar diameter of the earth?

Q.3. Equator divides the earth into which hemispheres?

Q.4. What are latitudes?

Q.5. What is an equator?

Q.6. What are hemispheres?

Q.7. What is the use of latitude?

Q.8. Why are the latitudes called parallels?

Q.9. What are the features of latitude?

Q.10. How many latitudes are there?

Q.11. What is the position of the Tropic of Cancer?

Q.12. What is the position of the Tropic of Capricorn?

Q.13. Which circle is located at 66.5o north and south of the Equator?

Q.14. Show the latitudes of Earth with the help of a globe?

Q.15. The globe is divided into how many zones based on latitudinal extent?

Q.16. Which area is known as a torrid zone?

Q.17. When are the sun seen overhead the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?

Q.18. What are the locations of the temperate zones?

Q.19. What are the locations of the frigid zone?

Q.20. Describe the effect of heat in the three zones?

Q.21. What are longitudes?

Q.22. When a longitude faces the sun?

Q.23. Longitude measurement is relative to which meridian?

Q.24. How is the value of the meridian determined?

Q.25. What are the differences between parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude?

Q.26. How many meridians of longitude are there?

Q.27. What is local time?

Q.28. What is standard time?

Q.29. What is the standard meridian of India?

Q.30. What is IST?

Q.31. What is GMT?

Q.32. How many time zones are there on Earth?

Q.33. How many longitudes are cornered in each timezone?

Q.34. How many time zones does Russia and the USA have?