EVS CH- LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES (NOTEBOOK AND WORKBOOK EXERCISE)

 LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES

NEW WORDS

axis

equator

axle

intersect

longitude

coordinates

hemisphere

grid

meridians

poles

NEW TERMS

1. intersect – crossing of two or more lines at a certain point 

2. universally – believed or accepted by everyone

Answer the following questions. 

a. What are longitudes? 

ANS. The imaginary lines which run vertically from North Pole to South Pole on the globe are called longitudes.

b. What are latitudes? 

ANS. The imaginary lines that run horizontally on the globe are called latitudes.

c. What are the important features of latitudes? 

ANS. Some of the important features of the latitudes are: 

● Latitudes run parallel to the equator and also to each other; they have equal distances between them. Therefore, they are also called as parallels of latitudes. 

● All the latitudes are measured in degrees (°). In all, there are 181 latitudes on the earth including the equator, 90 in the Northern Hemisphere and 90 in the Southern Hemisphere. 

● The lengths of latitudes decrease from the equator to the pole.

 d. What is geographical grid?

ANS. The latitudes and longitudes intersect each other to form a network of lines called grid on the globe.

 

e. State any two points of differences between latitudes and longitudes. 

ANS. LATITUDES--1) The imaginary lines that run horizontally on the globe are called latitudes

2) The lengths of latitudes decrease from the equator to the pole.

LONGITUDES-- 1) The imaginary lines which run vertically from North Pole to South Pole on the globe are called longitudes.

2) The length of the longitudes remains the same from the North to the South Pole.

f. What are coordinates of a place?

ANS. The point at which latitude and a longitude meet is called its coordinates. The grid is dotted with coordinates which help us to locate places on earth.

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