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What do the terms GMT and IST mean?

Important Questions on Latitudes and Longitudes

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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Exercises>Q 3
What is the relationship between longitude and time?
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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Exercises>Q 4
How is the Equator different from the Prime Meridian?
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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Exercises>Q 1
Describe the three heat zones of the Earth.
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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Exercises>Q 2
What is the importance of having a standard time? Explain by giving the example of India.
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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Exercises>Think and answer
Why do you think the International Date Line is not a straight line?
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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Project Activity>Group Activity

With the help of an atlas find the longitude and latitudes and longitudes of the following cities.

New Delhi, Washington D.C, Paris, Melbourne, Cairo, Brasília, Tokyo, San Francisco, Cape Town, Moscow.

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Which city is closer to the equator?
Which city is closest to the Tropic of Cancer?
Which city is closest to the Prime Meridian?
Name the cities that lie in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively.
Name the cities that lie in the Eastern and Western hemispheres respectively.

 

 

 

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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Project Activity>Individual Activity
Name the five countries through which the equator passes.
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New Longman Vistas>Chapter 17 - Latitudes and Longitudes>Project Activity>Individual Activity
Name five countries through which the Prime Meridian passes.