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Class 6 Geography: Locating Places Worksheet

This document is a worksheet for Class VI students at Singhania Public School focused on Geography, specifically on locating places on Earth. It includes multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, matching exercises, and short answer questions related to concepts such as the Prime Meridian, time zones, and map components. Additionally, students are instructed to draw specific symbols and diagrams in their notebooks.

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Class 6 Geography: Locating Places Worksheet

This document is a worksheet for Class VI students at Singhania Public School focused on Geography, specifically on locating places on Earth. It includes multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, matching exercises, and short answer questions related to concepts such as the Prime Meridian, time zones, and map components. Additionally, students are instructed to draw specific symbols and diagrams in their notebooks.

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Singhania Public School

Fort Songadh

Class: VI : A &B SOCIAL -SCIENCE Sub:Geography

Worksheet No:1 Topic: Locating Places on the Earth Year:2025-26


I Multiple Choice. Questions:-
1 The Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich,an area of London in .
a)England b)NewYork c)Tokyo d)Paris
2 The place where ariver meets the sea is called .
a) Deviates b) Estuary c)Survey d)Allofthese
3 Help us to marks the time and defines the time zones.
a)Latitudes b)Coordinates c)Longitude d)None of these
4 Is a bookor collection of maps.
a)Globe b)Grid c)Scale d)Atlas
II Fill in the blanks:-
5 _________________a famous astronomer,lived about 1,500 years ago.
6 The line opposite to the Prime Meridian at approximately 180° longitude is called the

7 A______,is as phere on which a map is drawn.


8 Indian IST lines passed from________________.
III Match the following:-
9 GMT a)Police Station
10 PO b)Indian Standard Time
11 PS c)Greenwich Mean Time
12 IST d)Post and Telegraph Office
e)Post Office

IV Answer the following in one sentence:-


13 What happens if you cross the International Date Line?

14 How is the system of coordinates useful on a map?

15 Which meridian became are ference for calculations in all the Indian astronomical texts?

16 Why is mapping of the Earth more difficult?

V Answer the following questions briefly:-


17 Mention the cardinal and intermediate directions.

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18 Explain how grid shel pusto locate a place on the Earth?

19 How maps are useful? Name the important components of a map?

20 Why are lines dividing the time zones notfully straight?

VI Draw the following symbols in your notebook.


21 1. Unmetalled road-==========

2. Metalled road-

3. Well -

4. River -

5. Graveyard-

6. Settlement-

7. Church-+

8. Tress-

22 Draw neat labeled diagram of latitudes, longitudes and Cardinal directions.

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