CLASS 5 SOCIAL STUDIES

Ch 2: PARALLELS AND MERIDIANS

VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Name the imaginary lines on the globe.

Ans: The imaginary lines on the globe are known as Latitudes and Longitudes.

2. Name the most important and the longest latitude.

Ans: Equator is the most important and the longest latitude

3. What is hemisphere?

Ans: Hemisphere means half of a sphere.

4. How many latitudes and longitudes are there on a globe?

Ans: There are 181 latitudes and 360 longitudes on a globe.

5. Name two important longitudes.

Ans: Prime Meridian

International dateline

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. What are latitudes?

Ans: The imaginary lines running from east to west on a globe are called parallels or lines of

latitude.

2. Name important lines of latitude with their degree.

Ans: Important lines of latitude are:

a) Equator (0°)

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b) Tropic of Cancer (23 ° N)
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c) Tropic of Capricorn (23 ° S)
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d) Arctic Circle (66 ° N)
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e) Antarctic Circle (66 ° S)
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6. How many hemispheres are there? Name them.

Ans: There are four hemispheres:

a) Northern Hemisphere

b) Southern Hemisphere

c) Eastern Hemisphere

d) Western Hemisphere

3. Define Meridian.

Ans: The imaginary line from north to South Pole on a globe are called materials or lines on

of longitudes.

4. Write any three features of Meridian.

Ans: Three features of Meridian are:

a) All meridians are of same length.

b) They cut the parallels at right angle.

c) The distance between two meridians is greatest at the equator.

5. What is a grid?

Ans. The lines of latitudes and longitudes crisscross and form a network of lines on the globe

and map. This is called a grid.

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. List some feature of latitudes.

Ans: Latitude is imaginary lighting that run from east west.

a) All Latitudes are complete circle except the North Pole and South Pole.
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b) The length of latitude decreases as we move away from equator towards poles.

c) All at Latitudes are located at equal distance.

d) All Latitudes are parallel lines.

2. What is the difference between latitudes and longitudes?

Ans:

S.No Latitudes longitudes

1. Latitudes are imaginary line running Longitudes are imaginary line running

from east to west. from North Pole to South Pole

2. There are 181 latitudes on a globe. There are 360 lines of longitudes on a

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3. All latitudes are not of the same All longitudes are of same length.

length

4. Some important lines of latitude are Some important lines of longitude are

Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Prime Meridian and International Dateline.

Capricorn.