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1) What are lines of latitude?

Ans) the imaginary lined running from east to west , parallel to the equator
are called the lines of latitude.
2) What are the lines of longitude?
Ans) the imaginary lines running from north to south through the poles are
called lines of longitude.
3) What is geographic grid?
Ans) when these lines of latitude and longitude intersect each other, they
point a place on earth and they form a framework of grids known as the
geographic grid.
4) Who invented latitudes and longitudes?
Ans) Eratosthenes, who was the greek philosopher calculated the
circumference of the earth and had devised the lines of latitudes and
longitudes to locate places on earth.
5) What axis does latitude and longitude represent on a graph paper?
Ans) in a graph paper, x axis is represented by the latitude and y axis by the
longitude.
6) What are the characteristics of the lines of latitude?
Ans)
 They are the imaginary lines joining all places having the same
latitude towards north or south of the equator
 It’s the angular distance of a place located north or south of the
equator
 Its marked in degrees where the equator is of 0 degrees
 They are calculated according to the angle a place makes with the
centre of the earth
 As they are parallel to each other, they are called parallels of latitude
 Each parallel of latitude is a full circle but the equator is the greatest
circle
 They are not of equal length and become smaller as we move
towards the poles and at 60 degree latitude, the length of the circle
is half the length of the equator
7) Tell about the main latitudes.
Ans)
 Equator – it’s the longest line of latitude which represents the 0
degree latitude
 The north pole- it’s the 90 degree north latitude located at an
angular distance of 90 degree north from the equator
 The south pole- it’s the 90 degree south latitude located at an angle
of 90 degree south of the equator
 The tropic of cancer- it’s a line of latitude located 23 and half degrees
north of the equator
 The tropic of capricorn- it’s a line of latitude located at 23 and half
degrees south of the equator
 The arctic circle- it represents the 66 and half degree north latitude
which limits the north polar region surrounding the north pole
 The antarctic circle- it represents 66 and half degree south latitude
marking the antarctic circle and limits the south polar region
8) What are the northern and southern hemispheres?
Ans) the equator which runs through the midway between the two poles of
the earth divides the earth into two equal hemispheres called the northern
and southern hemisphere.
The north and south poles are opposite to each other at the extreme ends.
They are located at an angle of 90 degree from the equator
9) What is the length of the equator?
Ans) the length of the equator is equal to the circumference of the earth
which is 40,075 km. since the circumference of earth is 360 degrees , 1
degree angular distance is roughly 111 km.
10) What is absolute location?
Ans) the location of a place given by a latitude either north or south of the
equator is called absolute location.
11) What are the uses of latitudes?
Ans) the uses of latitudes are-
 To find a loaction of a place in terms of absolute location
 To measure the distance of a place with reference to the equator at
right angle to that place. Distance is calculated by multiplying the
latitude of a place by 111 from the equator
 The latitudes also help us to divide the earth into heat zones and
they indicate the general climate of the area by applying the
principles of heat zones on thermal zones of earth.
12) Explain the heat zones of the earth.
Ans)
 The torrid or tropical zones- these are the zones which lie between
the tropic pf cancer and capricorn . it is the hottest zone and sunlight
falls here directly
 The temperate zones- these are the zones loacted between the
tropic of capricorn and arctic as well as between tropic of capricorn
to antractic cirlcle. They are temperate in nature and temperature is
moderate here
 The frigid zones- these are the zones which lie beyond the arctic and
antarctic circle and they are extremely cold and are the polar regions
where sunlight reaches in completely slanting way.

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