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प्रश्न
- Can you see India?
- Can you recognize any other place?
- Where is the sea?
- Do you find anything similar between the globe and this picture of the earth? In what ways are they different?
- Do you think Sunita could make out Pakistan, Nepal, and Burma separately when she saw the earth from space?
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उत्तर
- Yes, I can see India.
- Yes, I can recognize Sri Lanka.
- The blue colour on the globe indicates water.
- Similarities between the globe and the earth are that we can identify which part is land and which part is the sea. But it is difficult to identify a particular country or a city on the globe.
- No, it is difficult to identify these countries, since no particular country can be visible from space.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What do you think the earth looks like? Make a drawing of the earth in your notebook. On your drawing show where you are. Take a look at your friends’ drawings too.
Can you think why Sunita’s hair was standing?
Look at Sunita’s photographs and the dates written on each of them. Write what all is happening and when?
Think why water flows downwards on any slope. On mountains, water flows downwards, not upwards.
- Can you find India?
- Where all do you find the sea?
- Which countries can you see?
- Can you see some of the countries with which India plays cricket matches? For example England, Australia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and South Africa.
- What else can you see on the globe?
Do you think the moon is flat like the coin or round like a ball?
Look at the moon tonight and draw what it looks like. Look and draw again after one week, and then after 15 days.
| Today’s Date | Date after a week | Date after 15 days |
When is the next full moon? At what time will the moon rise on this day? What does the moon look like on this day? Draw it.
At night look at the sky carefully for 5 minutes.
- What could you see?
- Did you see anything moving in the sky? What do you think it could be? A star or a shooting star or a satellite (satellites are used for the TV, telephones, and for weather reports). Find out more about this.
If you saw the moon rising at 7 pm today, would you see it at the same time tomorrow?
