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Extra Question Answers Chapter-Oceans and Continents-Class 6 Social Science
1. What are Oceans?
Answer:
The largest water bodies we see on the globe are called ‘oceans’.
2. What are Continents?
Answer:
A large body of land is called a ‘landmass’, and a large continuous expanse of land is called a ‘continent’.
3. What are the names of the oceans?
Answer:
a) Pacific ocean b) Atlantic ocean c) Indian ocean d) Arctic ocean e) southern ocean
4. What are the names of the Continents?
Answer:
a) Asia b) Africa c) Australia d) Europe e) North America
f) South America g) Antarctica
5. What are the circular lines in each map called?
Answer:
Parallels Latitudes are imaginary reference lines that form complete circles around the earth parallel to the equator and parallel to each other.
6. Do you know what the circular lines radiating out of the two poles are called?
Answer:
They are called the meridians of longitude. They are spaced farthest apart at the equator and converge at a point at each pole.
7. Which hemisphere holds more water?
Answer:
Northern hemisphere.
8. What do you think could be the approximate proportion of water to land in the Northern Hemisphere and in the Southern Hemisphere? Discuss in groups.
Answer:
The ratio of land to water for the whole earth is 1:2 and 2:3 in the northern hemisphere. The ratio of land to water in the southern hemisphere is 1:3.
9. Are all the oceans connected with one another, or are there separations between them?
Answer:
Although we have listed five oceans, it is clear from the map that they are not really separate. The lines that divide them on the map are no more than conventions — the natural world does not follow such boundaries.
10. What means marine life?
Answer:
The marine life definition includes all life forms (from plants to animals to small, single-celled bacteria) that are found within oceans and seas.
11. What means Flora?
Answer:
The marine flora includes tiny plants called algae and all kinds of seaweeds.
12. What means Fauna?
Answer:
Mysterious deep-sea creatures, the marine fauna consists of thousands of species of colourful fish, dolphins, whales, and countless.
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