Locating Places on the Earth – Grade VI
Answer the following questions:
- What is meant by locating a place on the Earth?
- Why is it difficult to locate places accurately without a grid system?
- What are parallels of latitude?
- What are meridians of longitude?
- How do latitudes and longitudes form a grid system on the globe?
- What is the Equator and what is its latitude?
- Name the important parallels of latitude.
- How do latitudes help in determining the climate of a place?
- Why are latitudes called parallels?
- In what units is the distance between two latitudes measured?
- What is the Prime Meridian and where does it pass through?
- Why are longitudes also called meridians?
- How do longitudes help in calculating local time?
- What is the time difference between two longitudes?
- Why do places to the east gain time and places to the west lose time?
- What are the coordinates of a place?
- How can a place be located using its latitude and longitude?
- What is the difference between a globe and a map in locating places?
- Why is the grid system important for navigation?
- How do sailors and pilots use latitudes and longitudes?