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Joseph’s High School, Gorakhnath, Gorakhpur

Unit Test – I (2013-14) Time : 1 hr.
Class -VIII Subject: Geography M.M. : 20

1. Draw the diagram of Earth, showing:- [2]

i) Greenwich Meridian.
ii) Equator
iii) Frigid Zone
iv) Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

2. Answer the Following:-

i) How can the general climate of an area be described with the help of the
lines of latitudes? [1]
ii) Why earth’s interior is very hot? [1]
iii) What does Gaia Theory communicate? [1]
iv) Venus is the second planet from the sun but it is hotter than Mercury. [1]
Why?
v) Define the term Ecosystem with Suitable example? [1]
vi) Why Pluto does not belong to the category of a planet? [1]
vii) What is meant by IWL? State its important. [1]
viii) Man is capable of making modification to suit his own needs. Support the
statement with an example. [1]

3. Fill in the balnks:- [7]

i) Longitude degree of IST is ______
ii) _____ describe the attributes of soil.
iii) All ______ are part of great circle.
iv) ______ is measure of production at the autotroph level of the ecosystem.
v) True shape of the Earth is _______
vi) _____ has masimum time zones.
Vii) Distance between Longitudes ______ towards the poles.

4. Give reason:- [3]

i) The Greenwich time is called GMT or Greenwich Mean Time.
ii) Life is possible on Earth.
iii) People in the east see the sun earlier than those in the west.

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