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6. What is a heat zone?
7. What are the longitudes?
8. What is the use of the grid?

Activity

v The Tropic of Cancer passes through our country India. Locate it on the given map and find
out the states through which it passes.

A F G H A N I S T A N
JAMMU
&
KASHMIR
Ladakh
SRINAGAR Leh
HIMACHAL C H I N A
PRADESH
SHIMLA TIBET
PUNJAB
CHANDIGARH UTTARAKHAND
NA DEHRADUN
P A K I S T A N YA
HAR A HAL
DELHI
PRA E H
U
SIKKIM AR N C D S
N E
R A J A S T H A N UTTAR P A L GANGTOK BHUTAN ITANAGAR
JAIPUR PRADESH
ASSAM NAGALAND
DISPUR
LUCKNOW KOHIMA
PATNA SHILLONG
MANIPUR
B I H A R MEGHALAYA IMPHAL
BANGLADESH
Tropic GANDHINAGAR MADHYA H HARKHAND AGARTALA AIZAWL
J
WEST TRIPURATRIPURA
of G U J A R A T BHOPAL R BENGAL MIZORAM
Cancer PRADESH TT ISGA RANCHI KOLKATA
CHHA
Daman
Daman
DIU (D&D)
(D&D) D &NHD &NH
(D&D) M A H A R A S H T R A RAIPUR O D I S H A MYANMAR
SILVASSA
BHUBANESWAR
MUMBAI
HYDERABAD
A R A B I A N S E A A TE A G B AY O F B E N G A L
L N ANA
A T A K RA PR DE SH
A
PANAJI
GOA R N ANDH
K A
CHENNAI
BENGALURU
I L N A D U PORT BLAIR
A M (INDIA ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS
LAKSH
(IN
T
I
K E R
KAVARATTI ) ANDAMAN
ADW
D A)
SEA
A L A
EEP
THIRUV
THIRUVANANTHAPURAMANANTHAPURAM
Gulf
of
Mannar
KANYAKUMARIAKUMARI
KANY
S R I
L A N K A
Not to scale I N D I A N O C E A N
The Globe and You
v On the globe, keep the continent of North America before you. Now, rotate it from right to
left. Write the names of the continents that first come before you, and then write the next. In
this way, write the names of all continents :
____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
____________ ____________ ____________
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