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GLOBE : LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES - NCERT
Figure : GlobeLet s DoTake a big roundpotato or a a knittingneedle through it. Theneedle resembles the axisshown in a GLOBE . You cannow move the potato or theball around this axis fromleft to : LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES22In the previous chapter, you have read that our planetearth is not a sphere. It is slightly flattened at theNorth and the South Poles and bulge in the you imagine how it looks? You may look at aglobe carefully in your classroom to get an is a true model (miniature form) of the earth(Figure ).Globes may be of varying size and type big ones,which cannot be carried easily, small pocket globes,and GLOBE -like balloons, which can be inflated and arehandy and carried with ease. The GLOBE is not fixed. Itcan be rotated the same way as a top spin or a potter swheel is rotated. On the GLOBE , countries, continentsand oceans are shown in their correct is difficult to describe the location of a point on asphere like the earth.
begin from the meridian which passed through Greenwich, where the British Royal Observatory is located. This meridian is called the Prime Meridian. Its value is 0° longitude and from it we count 180° eastward as well as 180° westward. The Prime Meridian and 180° meridian divide the earth into two equal halves, the Eastern Hemisphere
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