Class IX - India -Size and Location
Questions within the Lesson
Q.1. Why 82°30′E has been selected as the Standard Meridian
of India?
Ans. A globe has 24 time zones, each of 15 longitudes. Local
time in each zone at the middle
longitude (divided by 7°30′) is taken as Standard Time. As
82°30'E is divisible by 7°30', a
standard by all countries, India selected this odd value.
Q.2. Why is the difference between the durations of day and
night hardly felt at Kanyakumari
but not so in Kashmir?
(page 2)
Ans. (i) Places near the Equator experience almost equal
duration of day and night as the Sun shines
overhead throughout the year.
(ii) Going away from Equator towards the Poles, the
durations of day and night go on
differing.
Q.3. Find out the number of Union Territories
along the western and eastern coasts.
Ans. Union Territories
on the western coast of India
are four in number — Diu and Daman, Dadra
and Nagar Haveli, Mahe (Pondicherry)
and Lakshadweep. Union Territories
on the eastern
coast of India
are two — Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Q.4. Areawise which is the smallest and which is the largest
state?
Ans. Smallest State
in India (areawise) — Goa
Largest State in India (areawise) — Rajasthan
Q.5. Find out the States which do not have an international
border or lie on the coast.
Ans. Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand.
Q.6. Classify the states into four groups each having common
frontiers with (i) Pakistan
(ii) China
(iii) Myanmar and (iv) Bangladesh.
(page 4)
Ans. (i) States having common frontiers with Pakistan are Jammu and
Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan
and Gujarat.
(ii) States having common frontiers with China are Jammu
and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh,
Uttarakhand,
Sikkim and
Arunachal Pradesh.
(iii)States having common frontiers with Myanmar are
Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur
and Mizoram.
(iv) States having common frontiers with Bangladesh are West Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam
and
Tripura.
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