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Home Assignment Lesson -2 Latitudes and Longitudes

                    Objective questions:

                    A. Choose the correct option:

                    1.The Earth ‘s axis is

                       a. an imaginary line that horizontally divides the Earth
                       b. an angular line that run across the Tropic of Cancer
                       c.  an imaginary line on which Earth rotates

                    2.There are ___________ meridians in all.


                      a.  340
                      b.  360
                      c.  180

                    3. Where do you find equal day and night throughout the year?

                       a.  Tropic of Cancer
                       b.  Equator
                       c.  Tropic of Capricorn

                    4.The prime Meridian passes through the Royal Observatory Greenwich in south-east
                    _________.

                       a.  London
                       b.  Spain
                       c.  Greenland

                    Subjective Questions:

                    A. Rewrite the statements correctly:


                    1.The distance between two meridians is maximum at the poles.

                    2.The equator divides the Earth into Eastern and western hemisphere.

                    3.The meridians are of unequal length.

                    4. The meridians located to the east of the Prime Meridian are indicated with ◦W.

                    B. Answer the following questions:

                    1. Write three features of the meridians which you observe on the globe.
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