Social Science [1 Mark Questions]

It creates a standard time for the whole world by using meridian.

The 0° Meridian is also known as the Prime Meridian.

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the centre of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator.

Torrid Zone.

Any point on the globe can be located by knowing its latitudes & longitudes.

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Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic circles.

Antarctic Circle lies south of equator at 66½0 S.

Globe.

The network of the Parallels of Latitude and Meridians of Longitude on the Globe is known as Grid.

The Torrid Zone is the hottest zone on the earth as it receives the vertical rays of the sun throughout the year, as the apparent movement of the sun is between the Tropics.

0° longitude.

A globe is useful when we want to study the earth as a whole as we can see the water bodies, the axis, the tilt and the location of the countries on the globe.

A needle is fixed through a globe in a tilted manner called axis of a globe.

At the poles.

International date line.

The true shape of Earth is geoid.

It is the first meridian, also called 0° longitude, which passes through the Greenwich in England.

The angular distance of the North Pole and South Pole from the equator is 90°So, the latitude of the North Pole is 90°N and that of South Pole is 90°S.

An imaginary line running on the globe divides it into two equal parts. This line is called as Equator.

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The parallel circles from the equator upto the poles are called latitudes.

Latitudes.

South Pole is in southern hemisphere at 9O0 S.

By measuring the angle of the pole star, one can find out the latitude of a place.

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Representation, on a plane surface, of features of part of the earth’s surface drawn to some specific scale.

The Arctic Circle is located in the Northern Hemisphere.

Decreases.

North Pole & South Pole.

The distance between the longitudes decreases towards the Poles.

Equator.

Angular distance from the equator on both sides (North and South) is called latitude. Latitudes are 180° - 90° north of equator and 90° south of equator.

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Globe is a true model (miniature form) of the Earth.

The equator is an important reference point to locate places.

Because it is away from the equator.

Longitudes.

There are mainly three heat zones of the earth:
Torrid zone
Temperate zone
Frigid zone ional, Sikhism and Judaism.

Torrid Zone.