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    GD 5 Soc Ls 2 Notes

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    This document contains notes from a social science class on latitude and longitudes. It defines key terms like the equator, prime meridian, Arctic circle, and tropic of cancer. It explains how latitude and longitude are used to locate places on a map or globe. The class notes also discuss how the Earth is divided into hemispheres and the purpose of the international date line. Finally, it relates the concepts of latitude and longitude to how ride-sharing services like Uber use a person's location to pick them up or drop them off.

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    This document contains notes from a social science class on latitude and longitudes. It defines key terms like the equator, prime meridian, Arctic circle, and tropic of cancer. It explains how latitude and longitude are used to locate places on a map or globe. The class notes also discuss how the Earth is divided into hemispheres and the purpose of the international date line. Finally, it relates the concepts of latitude and longitude to how ride-sharing services like Uber use a person's location to pick them up or drop them off.

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    This document contains notes from a social science class on latitude and longitudes. It defines key terms like the equator, prime meridian, Arctic circle, and tropic of cancer. It explains how latitude and longitude are used to locate places on a map or globe. The class notes also discuss how the Earth is divided into hemispheres and the purpose of the international date line. Finally, it relates the concepts of latitude and longitude to how ride-sharing services like Uber use a person's location to pick them up or drop them off.

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    GD 5 Soc Ls 2 Notes

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    Ravindran Mahadevan
    This document contains notes from a social science class on latitude and longitudes. It defines key terms like the equator, prime meridian, Arctic circle, and tropic of cancer. It explains how latitude and longitude are used to locate places on a map or globe. The class notes also discuss how the Earth is divided into hemispheres and the purpose of the international date line. Finally, it relates the concepts of latitude and longitude to how ride-sharing services like Uber use a person's location to pick them up or drop them off.

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    Social Science

    Grade 5
    Chapter 2: Latitude & Longitudes, Class 1

    CLASS NOTES-ANSWERS

    Match the following.

    1. Equator a. 66 1/2 °N latitude

    2. Prime Meridian b. a latitude which lies in the middle of the

    earth, at an equal distance from the North

    Pole and the South Pole

    3. Arctic Circle c. a longitude that passes through

    Greenwich, London

    4. Western Hemisphere d. 23 ½ ° N latitude

    5. Tropic of Cancer e. area between 0° and 180 ° W

    II. Rearrange the jumbled words.

    1. T U D E L A T I 4. A N D I R I M E

    2. L O N D E T U G I 5. R D I G

    3. R O T A Q U E

    Answers:

    1. LATITUDE 4. MERIDIAN

    2. LONGITUDE 5. GRID

    3. EQUATOR

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    Chapter 2: Latitude & Longitudes, Class 1

    III – Answer the following questions.

    1. How can we locate a place on the Earth.?

    Ans: We can locate a place on the Earth with the help of latitudes and

    longitudes on a globe or a map.

    2. Mention one similarity and one difference between a latitude

    and a longitude.

    Ans: Similarity - The lines of latitudes and longitudes are imaginary lines.

    Difference-The latitudes are horizontal lines whereas the longitudes are vertical

    lines.

    3. Name the four hemispheres into which the Earth can be divided.

    Ans: The Earth can be divided into Northern Hemisphere, Southern

    Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere, and Western Hemisphere.

    4. What is the International Date Line?

    Ans: The International Date Line is an imaginary line fixed by

    international agreement for deciding the dates of Eastern and Western

    Hemispheres of the Earth. It runs approximately around 180o

    longitude.

    5. What is a grid?

    Ans: The imaginary crisscross network of latitudes and longitudes on the Earth’s

    surface is called the grid.

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    Chapter 2: Latitude & Longitudes, Class 1

    IV – Think it Over (HOTS)

    Have you or anyone you know, used a taxi service such as Uber or Ola? How

    do these taxis find your location to pick you up and drop you at your chosen

    destination? Discuss in class.

    Answer:

    Taxi services can pick up our location by finding our home address or any other

    address on a map. These addresses are absolute location as it gives the exact

    position where a place is located.

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