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प्रश्न
What is the true shape of the earth?
थोडक्यात उत्तर
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उत्तर
The true shape of the earth is a sphere flattened at the poles. Such a shape is called a geoid.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blanks.
The Tropic of Capricorn is located at _________________.
The globe and the earth are different in ______.
Latitudes and longitudes form a ______.
What are the advantages of the globe?
The Earth moves around the ______.
The Earth is inclined on its axis at an inclination of ______.
The first globe was created by the ______.
Match the following.
| a. | Geographia | i. | Horizontal |
| b. | Aryabhatta | ii. | Vertical |
| c. | Latitudes | iii. | Centre |
| d. | Longitudes | iv. | Ptolemy |
| e. | Equator | v. | Astronomer |
Who was Ptolemy?
Who said this? The stars in the sky seem to move towards the west because of the Earth’s rotation on its axis.
