Question

Answer the following questions briefly:
1.How do you fix the position of a point on a sheet of graph paper?
2.Why are distances from reference lines measured in angles?
3.How are the poles of the Earth fixed?
4.What do you mean by the latitude of a place?
5.
How are latitudes measured?
6. Explain why there is no higher latitude than 90°N and 90°S.
7. Explain why the lines of a latitude are called the parallels of latitude.
8.Name five important parallels of latitude.
9 What are the limits of the North Temperate Zone?
10. Which is the reference line for measuring longitude?
11. What is meant by the longitude of a place?
12. Explain why the lines of longitude are called meridians of longitude.
13. State two properties of the lines of latitude.
14. State two properties of the lines of longitude.
15. The distance between two consecutive parallels of latitude is equal to about 111 km but the distance between
two consecutive meridians of longitude is equal to 111 km only at the Equator. Give one reason.
16 Explain why 1° latitude is equal to 111 km throughout whereas 1º longitude in terms of distance varies.
17. State the rate of change of time with longitude.
18. How is the local time of a place fixed?
19. Why is Standard Time considered necessary?
20. Why do some countries have many time zones?
21. What is the International Date Line?
22. Mention two places where the International Date Line deviates from 180° longitude.
23. What is a Great Circle?
24. How is a Great Circle useful?
25. Except for the Equator, other parallels of latitude are not Great Circles. Why?

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