Knowing the earth, Chapter-3, class-3, S.St.

1:- What is globe?
Ans:- A model of the earth is made to study the features of the earth. This model is called a globe.

2:- What are maps?
Ans:- Maps are the drawings of a part of the earth or whole of the earth.

3:- What are wall maps?
Ans:- Big maps are called wall maps.

4:- What is atlas?
Ans:- A book of maps is called an atlas.

5:- What does the blue colour shows on the map?
Ans:- Water

6:- What does the brown colour shows on the map?
Ans:- landmasses

7:- What are oceans?
Ans:- Very large water bodies are called oceans.

8:- How many main oceans in the world? Name them.
Ans:- There are four main oceans in the world
          1-Pacific ocean
          2-Atlantic ocean
          3-Indian ocean
          4-Arctic ocean

9:- Who is the largest ocean of the world?
Ans:- Pacific ocean

10:- Who is the smallest ocean of the world?
Ans:- Arctic ocean

11:- What are continents?
Ans:- Very large landmasses on the earth are called continents.

12:- How many continents on the earth? Name them.
Ans:- There are seven continents on the earth
          1-Asia
          2-Africa
          3-North America
          4-South America
          5-Europe
          6-Australia
          7-Antarctica

13:- Who is the largest continent on earth?
Ans:- Asia

14:- Who is the smallest continent on earth?
Ans:- Australia

15:- How many main directions? Name them.
Ans:- There are four main directions.
          1-North
          2-South
          3-East
          4-West

16:- How many Sub-directions? Name them.
Ans:- There are four Sub-directions.
          1-North-East
          2-North-West
          3-South-East
          4-South-West

17:- How do directions and sub-directions help us?
Ans:- Directions and sub-directions help us in locating places.

18:-Tick the correct answer.


1. Big maps are called.
                a-  World map                          b-  Wall map                                     c-  Guide maps
2.The blue colour on maps shows
                a-  water                                    b-  sky                                              c-  landmasses
3. The sub-direction that lies between south and west is
                a-  North-West                          b-  South-East                                  c-  South-West
4.This is the largest ocean in the world
                a- Indian ocean                           b-  Pacific ocean                            c-  Arctic ocean
 5.This is the smallest continent in the world
                a- Asia                                         b- Africa                                        c-Australia

19:- Write 'T' for true and 'F' for false
          1-A globe is easy to carry from one place to another.
          2-Map can be either big or small
          3-There are five main oceans.
          4-Our country India is located in the continent of asia.
          5-Rivers and lakes are large water bodies.

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