Know your Planet

Which explorer sailed around the world ?

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Gerardus Mercator

What is the name of the two end points of the Earth's axis ?

• Dots

• Poles

• Lines

• Caps

The part of the Earth above the Equator is called the

• North Pole

• South Pole

• Southern Hemisphere

• Northern Hemisphere

The prime Meridian passes through a place called

• Sandwich

• Norwich

• Greenwich

• London

To locate a place on a globe we must know it’s

• Latitude

• Latitude and Longitude

• Longitude

• Time zone

If parallels are drawn at intervals of one degree, there will be

• 181 parallels

• 90 parallels

• 360 parallels

• 180 parallels

Nicolaus Copernicus said that the Earth revolves around the

• Moon

• Sun

• Pole star

• Comets

The movement of the earth around the sun is called

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Gravitation

• Season

The revolution of the Earth causes

• Days and nights

• Natural disasters

• Seasons

• Thunder and lightning

Dust storms are common in

• Mountains

• Streams

• Plains

• Bays