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H. Answer the questions in detail :
1. What is a globe? What is it used for?

2. What are latitude and longitude? Write the difference between them.
3. Write about some important latitudes.
4. What are the Torrid Zone and Frigid Zone?

5. How can you use longitude to calculate time.

1. The Mayor of London has invited you to dinner at 10 pm local time on October 2. Your flight will take
3 hours to reach there and you need 1 hour to fresh up yourself. When should your flight start so
that you reach there on right time?
2. Supposing Punjab observes time 5½ hours ahead of GMT and Assam observes time 6½ hours ahead
of GMT. Make a timetable for a train that travels between Amritsar and Guwahati and takes 28
hours on the way.
Onward Journey Return Journey
Train Name Departure Time Date Arrival at Time Date
PA Express Amritsar Guwahati

Guwahati Amritsar

Polar Regions
The regions of Earth surrounding its geographical poles (North Pole and
South Pole) are known as polar regions. It is also known as frigid zone
because these regions are dominated by Earth’s polar ice caps, the
northern resting on the Arctic Ocean and the southern on the continent
of Antarctica.
The northern polar region consists mainly of floating and pack ice, 7–10 feet thick, floating on the Arctic
Ocean and surrounded by the land masses. The ice cap of the southern polar region averages 6,700 feet
in thickness, is underlaid by the continental landmass of Antarctica, and is surrounded by oceans.
These regions are the zones in higher latitudes where there is never any summer in the sense that is
understood in our moderate latitudes.

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