Question

A. Answer the following questions briefly :

1. Why do we need to locate places on Earth?
2. What do you mean by the latitude of a place?
3. What is meant by Prime Meridian?
4. Explain why there is no higher latitude other than
90 degrees North and South.
5. Explain why Lines of Longitudes are called Meridian
of Longitude.
6. State two properties of the Lines of Latitude.
7. State two properties of Lines of Longitude.
8. The distance between two successive parallels of
latitudes is 111 km. Explain.
9. What are the limits of two Temperate Zones?
10. Why are the places in the Torrid Zone hotter than
those in other zones?
11. Why are the places in the Frigid Zone colder than
in other zones?
12. How is the Local Time of a place fixed?
13. Is it correct to say that Local Time is the Sun Time?
14. If the GMT at 0° longitude is 12 noon, find the local
time of place A (30°E).
15. Why is the Standard Time considered necessary?
16. What are Time Zones? How many Time Zones do
we have?
17. London experiences a lower temperature than
Singapore throughout the year. Why?
18. What is International Date Line? Describe the use
of this line.
19. Why do some countries have many Time Zones?
20. What are Small Circle.



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Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

1. Location is very important because it enables us to know the precise place of an archeological site, human settlement, town, city or a village.

2. Latitude is used together with longitude to specify the precise location of feautures on surface of the earth.

3. A planets meridian adopted as the zero of the longitude

4. Because that is the maximum size of a right angle. After 90 degrees the size of the angle begins to decrease as you start down the other side of the planet.

5. In geographical sense merdians are great circles which are not parallel to each other but intersect each other at North and South Poles. Same stands true to the longitudes.