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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
If the earth is round like a globe, how is it that we do not fall off?
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Look at Sunita’s photographs and the dates written on each of them. Write what all is happening and when?
Can you now say why Sunita’s hair kept standing?
Think why water flows downwards on any slope. On mountains, water flows downwards, not upwards.
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?
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See how the earth is looking. Can you see the surface of the moon? Do you have some questions after looking at this picture? Write down those questions and discuss them in the class.
Why do children always slide down the slide and not slide up? If this slide were there in Sunita’s spacecraft, would children slide like this? Why?
Why do we see stars mostly at night?
