learn about Globes and Maps.

1. What did the people believe for a long time? The earth was flat.
2. Who was the first explorer? Ferdinand Magellan.
3. What did he do? He sailed around the earth in 1522.
4. Why did he do this? to find whether we can come to the starting point if we travel in East or West?
5. What are taken from satellites? pictures of the earth.
6. What did they find out? the earth is a SPHERE.
7. It is round like a ball.
8. What is a globe? Ball like  thing used as a small model of the earth.
9. What can you see on the outside?We can see different continents and oceans. 
10. Blue colour  is used for large water bodies.
11. Where is India? Find this out in the Globe. in Asia.
12. Which is the farthest NORTH point on the earth? North Pole.
13. Which is the farthest South point on earth? South Pole.
14. Where is North Pole? on land or in Water?
15. Where is the South Pole? on land or in water.

While the South Pole lies on a continental land mass, the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice.

1. In which continent is the South Pole?
2. The Geographic South Pole is located on the continent ofAntarctica (although this has not been the case for all of Earth's history because of continental drift).
3. What is the origin of the word Globe?It is from Latin language
4. Globus  round mass or sphere.
5. What is the EQUATOR? it is an imaginary line drawn around the centre of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
6. It divides the earth into two equal halves.
7. What are they called? the north portion is Northern Hemisphere.In the south Southern Hemisphere.
8. one continent in Northern Hemisphere.North America
9. One continent in Southern Hemisphere.Australia.
10. Two continents through which Equator passes.

QUICK ANSWER

1. The continents that the Equator passes through include Australia and Oceania, South America, Africa and Asia.
2. The only ocean through which the equator does not pass.  Arctic ocean.
3. Why did geographers make Globes?
4. a) They are round models of earth.
5. b) you can see all the continents easily.
6. c) You can judge the shapes and positions easily.
7. d)It is more user-friendly than the flat map.
8. How is the earth shaped?like an orange.
9. Slightly flat at the poles.
10. Earth;s shape is SPHERE.
11. Magellan sailed round the earth in 1522
12. Each half of the earth apportioned by equator. Hemisphere.
13. Northern point in the farthest place.  North Pole.