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Locating Places on the Earth — Practice

15 questions 15 min Recall + understand

  1. Q1. According to the chapter, which three are the main components of a map?

  2. Q2. What is an atlas?

  3. Q3. Which of the following set lists the four cardinal directions?

  4. Q4. What is the latitude of the Equator?

  5. Q5. The Prime Meridian, also called the Greenwich Meridian, is marked as which longitude?

  6. Q6. Indian Standard Time (IST) is how far ahead of the local time at Greenwich (GMT)?

  7. Q7. A globe is best described as

  8. Q8. Lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole, all half-circles, are called

  9. Q9. The International Date Line is located approximately along which longitude?

  10. Q10. Centuries before Europe, India had its own prime meridian called madhya rekhā passing through which city?

  11. Q11. Which feature of a map makes it possible to fit a huge place onto a small piece of paper?

  12. Q12. Which government body has fixed a set of standard symbols for maps of India?

  13. Q13. An imaginary line drawn parallel to the Equator, running east and west around the Earth, is called a

  14. Q14. When the parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude are shown together on the globe, the network they form is called a

  15. Q15. The Earth makes one full turn (360°) on its axis in about how many hours?

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