MCQ Questions

Question No. 1

Answer the following questions in short:

Answer :

(1) What do you mean by Indian Standard Time?

(2) What do you understand by time zones?

(3) Give any two uses of latitudes.

(4) What is the significance of the Equator?

(5) What is meant by Meridian?

Question No. 2

Answer the following questions in detail:

Answer :

(1) Give details about the lines of latitude.

(2) How can we locate a place on the globe with the help of lines of longitudes and latitude? Explain it with a suitable diagram.

(3) Describe the heat zones of the Earth with the help of a diagram.

(4) Why has 82°30'E longitude been selected as the Standard Meridian for India?

Question No. 3

Answer in one word or one sentence:

Answer :

(2) What is the Equator?

(3) Name the longitude on which International Date line is located.

(1) What do you mean by local time?

(4) What is a globe?

(5) Why does Russia have 11 time zones?

Question No. 4

Distinguish between:

Answer :

(1) Local Time and Standard Time

(2) Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

Question No. 5

Fill in the blanks:

Answer :

(a)_________________ divides the Earth into northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere.

(b) The longitude considered as the Standard Meridian in India is ___________.

(c) The Earth is divided into_________ time zones.

(d) Due to its vastness, Russia has__________ time zones.

(e) 66 ½° Sis known as __________

Question No. 6

True or False:

Answer :

(a) 82° 30' E is selected as the Standard Meridian in India.

(b) The Meridians of Longitudes have 370 lines.

(c) Each time zone cover 15° of longitudes.

(d) The North Temperate zone lies between the Arctic circle and the North frigid zone.

(e) In the Southern Hemishere, the parallel of 23½ 0 S is called the Tropic of Capricorn.

Question No. 7

One word answer:

Answer :

(a) Angular distance of a place north or south of equator.

(b) Angular distance of a place east or west of prime meridian.

(c) The 0° longitude passing through Greenwich in England.

(d) Two fixed points on the Earth which are tips of the axis of the Earth.

Question No. 8

Match the columns correctly:

Answer :

Question No. 9

What is a globe?

Answer :

Earth

True model of the earth

none of these

Question No. 10

Which of the following are shown on the globe in their true size?

Answer :

Countries

Continents

both of these

Question No. 11

What is called a needle fixed through the globe in a tilted manner?

Answer :

Orbit

Axis

Longitude

Question No. 12

What divides the earth into two equal parts?

Answer :

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn

Equator

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