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All Questions from Geography Chapter: Latitudes and Longitudes
1. 1. What is a geographic grid? How does the geographic grid serve the same purpose as co-ordinates on a
graph?
2. 2. What are lines of latitude and longitude? Who devised the lines of latitude and longitude?
3. 3. Mention two characteristics of lines of latitude.
4. 4. Name the two hemispheres of the earth made by the Equator. Name the thermal zones of the earth.
5. 5. List any two uses of the lines of latitude. Express 1° angular distance in kilometres.
6. 6. With the help of a diagram, show the important lines of latitude.
7. 7. Which line is known as the Prime Meridian? State its importance.
8. 8. How can the general climate of an area be described with the help of the lines of latitude?
9. 9. Which line of longitude is used to fix the World Standard Time? State its value in degrees. State the
longitudinal value in degrees of Indian Standard Meridian.
10. 10. List any two characteristics of the Great Circles.
11. 11. List any two uses of the Great Circles.
12. 12. What are the Great Circle Routes? State their importance.
13. 1(a). State the five lines of latitude.
14. 1(b). What is the significance of these lines of latitude?
15. 1(c). Give a geographical reason for each of the following: (i) Lines of latitude are called parallels of
latitude. (ii) Lines of latitude are not of equal length. (iii) Lines of latitude carve out the heat zones of the earth.
16. 1(d). Draw a well labelled diagram showing the different heat zones of the world.
17. 2(a). Describe the lines of longitude.
18. 2(b). State the use of the lines of longitude in relation to distance and time.
19. 2(c). Give a geographical reason for each of the following: (i) Lines of longitude are called meridians of
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longitude. (ii) Diametrically opposite lines of longitude and the Equator are called Great Circles.
20. 2(d). Draw a well labelled diagram to show that places on the same longitude have the same time.
21. 3(a). State the meaning of the International Date Line.
22. 3(b). State with an example how time lost or gained is computed with reference to the International Date
Line.
23. 3(c). Give a geographical reason for each of the following: (i) The International Date Line deviates and
goes zig-zag near some islands in the Pacific Ocean. (ii) The Greenwich time is called the Greenwich Mean
Time. (iii) Great Circles are the shortest routes between two places.
24. 3(d). State with one practical example how is time of a place found with the help of longitudes.
25. 1. A cricket match was to be held at Birmingham at 9 a.m. local time. The position of Birmingham is 5° W.
Calculate the time the viewers have to tune their television in Sydney 151°E.
26. 2. An important programme was to be broadcast from Mumbai at 7:30 p.m. This was heard by some
Indian sailors near Ivory Coast in West Africa at 20°W longitude. What was the local time there?
27. 3. What is the longitude of a place where the local time is 1:15 p.m., when it is 4 a.m. at Chicago (88°W)?
28. 4. Calculate the time at Durban (longitude 30°E) when the time is 7:00 a.m. at New York (75°W).
29. 5. Calculate the longitude of a place where the local time is 6:00 a.m., when the time is 9:00 p.m. at New
Delhi on longitude 77°E.
30. 6. Calculate the local time at Singapore (104°E) when it is 6:00 p.m. at Greenwich.
31. 7. Calculate the local time at Singapore when the local time is noon when it is 7:30 p.m. at Greenwich.
32. 8. What is the time and day at Mumbai (73°E) when it is Sunday 10:30 p.m. at Shillong (92°E)? Give a
reason to support your answer.
33. 1. Find the latitude of your city and state how has this influenced the climate of your city.
34. 2. How is the temperature of your home town different from your boarding school, located at a place that
receives the vertical rays of the Sun?
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35. 3. Find out the name of the country which has the maximum number of time zones in the world. What is
reason behind a country having many time zones and others like India have just one time zone?
36. 4. When you were waiting to welcome New Year in India on December 31, some countries of the world
like Australia, New Zealand and Japan have already welcomed New Year. What is the reason for this?
37. 1. What is the Longitudinal degree of IST?
38. 2. If it is 2 a.m. IST what will be the Time at Tokyo _______, London _______, San Francisco _______?
39. 3. Name the place which is diametrically opposite of India.
40. 4. Is the Indian Standard Time ahead of San Francisco Time? Give reasons for your answer.
