Question

Answer the following in one word or sentence:
1. What is the network of criss-cross lines at the face of the earth known as?
2. Name the angular distance measured north or south of the equator.
3. What is the Great Circle?
4. An imaginary line joining two poles on which the earth rotates.
5. The heat zone on which the sunrays are vertical throughout the year.
5. The angular distance measured east or west of prime meridian.
7. The zone on which the sun's rays make an oblique angle.
3. At what degrees does the Indian standard meridian lie?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.grid

2.Latitude

3.A great circle, also known as an orthodrome, of a sphere is the intersection of the sphere and a plane that passes through the center point of the sphere. A great circle is the largest circle that can be drawn on any given sphere.

4.axis

5.The sun's vertical rays strike the Tropic of Cancer, 23.5° north of the Equator, during the June solstice. The subsolar point then begins its migration south, and vertical rays strike the Tropic of Capricorn, 23.5° south of the Equator, during the December solstice.

6.The higher the latitude, the less is the angle that the sun's rays make with the surface of the earth. Hence, the polar regions receive slanting rays of sunlight.

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