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Chapter - 2 Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes
-Earth is slightly flattened at the north and south poles and bulge in the middle.
-Globe is a true model of the earth.
-Earth rotates from West to East.
-Equator is an imaginary line divides the globe into 2 equal parts.
1.Northern part is called Northern Hemisphere.
2. Southern part is called Southern Hemisphere.
-All Parallel circles from the equator upto the poles are called Parallels of Latitudes.
-Equator represents the zero degree of latitude.
-90 degree North latitude marks the north pole
-90 degree south latitude marks the south pole.
-One can know the latitude of their place by measuring the angle of the pole star from their place.
-There are four important parallels of Latitudes
a. Tropic of cancer - 23 1/2 degree north in the northern hemisphere.
b. Tropic of Capricorn - 23 1/2 degree south in the southern hemisphere.
c. Arctic circle at 66 1/2 degree north of the equator.
d. Antarctic circle at 66 1/2 degree south of the equator.
-The mid day sun is exactly overhead at least once a year on all latitudes in between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn. This area receives the maximum heat and is called the Torrid Zone.
-The angle of the sun rays goes on decreasing towards the poles. therefore the areas bounded by the tropic of cancer and the arctic circle in the Northern Hemisphere and the tropic of capricorn and the antarctic circle in the southern hemisphere have moderate temperature.These are therefore called temperate zone.
-Areas lying between the arctic circles and the north pole in the Northern hemisphere and the Antartctic circle and the south pole in the southern hemisphere are very cold. These are called Frigid Zones.
-The lines of references running from the north pole to the south pole are called the meridians of longitudes.All these meridians meet at the poles.
-The meridians which passed through Greenwich where the British Royal Observatory is located is called the Prime meridian. Its value is zero degree longitude.
-The shadow cast by the sun is longest at sunrise and sunset.
-The shadow cast by the sun is shortest at noon.
-The sun is at the highest point in the sky when it is mid day.
-The longitude of 82 1/2 degree east is taken as the standard time for a whole country. It is known as the Indian Standard time(IST).
-India is located east of Greenwich at 82degree30minutes is 5hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT(Greenwich Mean Time).
-The Earth has been divided into 24 time zones of 1hour each.
To download 6th NCERT geography Textbook - click here
Chapter - 2 Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes
-Earth is slightly flattened at the north and south poles and bulge in the middle.
-Globe is a true model of the earth.
-Earth rotates from West to East.
-Equator is an imaginary line divides the globe into 2 equal parts.
1.Northern part is called Northern Hemisphere.
2. Southern part is called Southern Hemisphere.
-All Parallel circles from the equator upto the poles are called Parallels of Latitudes.
-Equator represents the zero degree of latitude.
-90 degree North latitude marks the north pole
-90 degree south latitude marks the south pole.
-One can know the latitude of their place by measuring the angle of the pole star from their place.
-There are four important parallels of Latitudes
a. Tropic of cancer - 23 1/2 degree north in the northern hemisphere.
b. Tropic of Capricorn - 23 1/2 degree south in the southern hemisphere.
c. Arctic circle at 66 1/2 degree north of the equator.
d. Antarctic circle at 66 1/2 degree south of the equator.
-The mid day sun is exactly overhead at least once a year on all latitudes in between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn. This area receives the maximum heat and is called the Torrid Zone.
-The angle of the sun rays goes on decreasing towards the poles. therefore the areas bounded by the tropic of cancer and the arctic circle in the Northern Hemisphere and the tropic of capricorn and the antarctic circle in the southern hemisphere have moderate temperature.These are therefore called temperate zone.
-Areas lying between the arctic circles and the north pole in the Northern hemisphere and the Antartctic circle and the south pole in the southern hemisphere are very cold. These are called Frigid Zones.
-The lines of references running from the north pole to the south pole are called the meridians of longitudes.All these meridians meet at the poles.
-The meridians which passed through Greenwich where the British Royal Observatory is located is called the Prime meridian. Its value is zero degree longitude.
-The shadow cast by the sun is longest at sunrise and sunset.
-The shadow cast by the sun is shortest at noon.
-The sun is at the highest point in the sky when it is mid day.
-The longitude of 82 1/2 degree east is taken as the standard time for a whole country. It is known as the Indian Standard time(IST).
-India is located east of Greenwich at 82degree30minutes is 5hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT(Greenwich Mean Time).
-The Earth has been divided into 24 time zones of 1hour each.
To download 6th NCERT geography Textbook - click here