MCQ on Class 6 Geography Latitudes and Longitudes
What is the shape of the Earth?
- a) Spherical
- b) Cylindrical
- c) Cuboid
- d) Flattened at the poles and bulging in the middle
Answer: d) Flattened at the poles and bulging in the middle
What is a globe?
- a) A miniature form of the Earth
- b) A flat map of the Earth
- c) A cylindrical representation of the Earth
- d) A three-dimensional model of the Moon
Answer: a) A miniature form of the Earth
Which line divides the Earth into two equal parts?
- a) Meridian
- b) Equator
- c) Tropic of Cancer
- d) Tropic of Capricorn
Answer: b) Equator
What are the two halves of the Earth called?
- a) Eastern and Western Hemisphere
- b) Northern and Southern Hemisphere
- c) Upper and Lower Hemisphere
- d) Day and Night Hemisphere
Answer: b) Northern and Southern Hemisphere
What is the measurement of the distance from the equator to either of the poles?
- a) 180 degrees
- b) 270 degrees
- c) 360 degrees
- d) 90 degrees
Answer: d) 90 degrees
What are the parallel circles from the equator to the poles called?
- a) Meridians
- b) Longitudes
- c) Tropics
- d) Parallels of latitudes
Answer: d) Parallels of latitudes
If a place is located at 35° north latitude, how would it be indicated?
- a) 35° E latitude
- b) 35° W latitude
- c) 35° N latitude
- d) 35° S latitude
Answer: c) 35° N latitude
What happens to the size of the parallels of latitude as we move away from the equator?
- a) They increase in size
- b) They remain constant
- c) They decrease in size
- d) They become irregular
Answer: c) They decrease in size
Which parallel of latitude is located at 23½° N?
- a) Tropic of Cancer
- b) Tropic of Capricorn
- c) Arctic Circle
- d) Antarctic Circle
Answer: a) Tropic of Cancer
Which parallel of latitude is located at 23½° S?
- a) Tropic of Cancer
- b) Tropic of Capricorn
- c) Arctic Circle
- d) Antarctic Circle
Answer: b) Tropic of Capricorn
At what latitude is the Arctic Circle located?
- a) 23½° N
- b) 23½° S
- c) 66½° N
- d) 66½° S
Answer: c) 66½° N
At what latitude is the Antarctic Circle located?
- a) 23½° N
- b) 23½° S
- c) 66½° N
- d) 66½° S
Answer: d) 66½° S
Which latitudes experience the mid-day sun being exactly overhead at least once a year?
- a) Tropic of Cancer and Arctic Circle
- b) Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
- c) Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle
- d) Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle
Answer: b) Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
What is the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn called?
- a) Arctic Circle
- b) Antarctic Circle
- c) Temperate Zone
- d) Torrid Zone
Answer: d) Torrid Zone
Where does the mid-day sun never shine overhead?
- a) Tropic of Cancer and Arctic Circle
- b) Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
- c) Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle
- d) Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle
Answer: c) Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle
