CBSE Class-6 Geography notes
CBSE Class-6 Geography notes Geography Chapter 2 Globe Latitudes and Longitudes 1. Answer the following questions briefly: (a) What is the true shape of the earth? (b) What is the globe? (c) What is the latitudinal value of the Tropic of Cancer? (d) What are the three heat zones of the Earth? (e) What are parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude? (f) Why does the Torrid Zone receive the maximum amount of heat? (g) Why is it 5.30 p.m in India when it is 12.00 noon in London? Answers: (a) The true shape of the Earth is geoid-earth like shape. In other words, it is orange shaped. (b) Globe. Globe is the three dimensional model of the earth. (c) 23 1 2 ° N. (d) (i) Torrid Zone (ii) Temperate Zone (iii) Frigid Zone. (e) Parallels of Latitudes and Meridians of Longitudes: Parallels of Latitudes: All the parallel circles from the equator to the poles are called parallels of latitudes. Meridians of Longitudes: All the semi-circles which join north pole to south pole are termed as mer