(English Medium) ICSE Class 9 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for Geography

What is a geographic grid? 

Who devised the lines of latitude and longitude?

What are the lines of latitude?

Name the two hemispheres of the earth made by the Equator.

Express 1° angular distance in kilometers.

Name the thermal zones of the earth.

Which temperature zone receives almost vertical rays of the sun and which zones receive slanting rays?

Which line is known as the Prime Meridian? 

How can the general climate of an area be described with the help of the lines of latitudes?

What is the globe? State the importance of a globe.

Give a reason for the following:

A globe is the most popular model of the earth.

Which temperature zone receives slanting rays?

Name the two reference lines with respect to which the distances of various places on the earth’s surface are measured?

Explain how latitudes and longitudes help to determine the position of a place on the globe?

What is meant by Equinox? 

How has the phenomenon of the ‘Midnight Sun’ come about?

What are the seasons in the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres on 23^rd September?

Mention one effect of seasons in low and high latitudes.

Give reasons for the following
The speed of the rotation of the earth is greater at the Equator than at the Arctic Circle.

Give reasons for the following:
25th of December in New Zealand may be one of the hottest days of the year.