Q3. MATCH THE FOLLOWING
A. column
1. Hieroglyphics
2. Ocean liners
3. Alaska highway
4. Early communication
5. John Logie Baird
6. Prime meridian
B. column
North America
Television
Greenwich
Pictorial characters for words
Painting on cave wall
Carry passengers, parcels and
mails
Answers
Answer:
1. Hieroglyphics - painting on cave wall
2. Ocean liners - Carry passengers, parcels and mails
3. Alaska highway - North America
4. Early communication - Pictorial characters for words
5. John Logie Baird - Television
6. Prime meridian - Greenwich
Explanation:
1. Hieroglyphics - A hieroglyph ( Greek for "sacred carving" ) was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are Pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs".
2. Ocean liners - An Ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes. cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes called liners.
3. Alaska highway - The Alaska highway was constructed during world war II to connect the contiguous United States to Alaska across Canada. It begins at the junction with several Canadian highways in Dawson creek, British Columbia, and runs to Delta junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon.
4. Early communication - The history of communication technologies have evolved in tandem with shifts in political and economic systems and by extensions, system of power. the history of communication itself can be traced back since the origin of speech circa 500,000 BCE.
5. John Logie Baird - John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish inventor, electric engineer, and innovator, demonstrating the world's first working television system on 26 January 1926. He also invented the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube.
6. prime meridian - A prime meridian is the meridian in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0 degree. Together, a prime meridian and it's anti - meridian form a great circle. This great circle divides a spheriod into two hemispheres.