AP 6th Social: Locating Places on the Earth Lesson Answers 2026-27

AP 6th Social: Locating Places on the Earth Lesson Answers 2026-27. The first Lesson of 6th Social Text Book is Locating Places on the Earth. Here are the detailed all Questions and Answers for the APSCERT 6th Social 1st Unit Textbook Lesson.

AP 6th Social Locating Places on the Earth Lesson Answers 2026-27

📍 Lesson 1: Locating Places on the Earth

Class 6 Social Science | Semester 1 | Answers to In-text Activities & End-of-Lesson Exercises (Pages 12–44)

🧭 Big Questions (Page 12) Locating Places on the Earth

Q1 What is a map and how do we use it? What are its main components?
A map is a drawing that shows an area as seen from above. It helps us find places, roads, and buildings. Its three main components are distance (scale), direction, and symbols.

Q2 What are coordinates? How can latitude and longitude be used to mark any location on the Earth?
Coordinates are a pair of numbers that fix an exact position, just like a seat number in a cinema hall. On Earth, latitude (distance from the Equator) and longitude (distance from the Prime Meridian) together form the coordinates that locate any place, e.g., "Delhi is at 29°N, 77°E".

Q3 How are local time and standard time related to longitude?
As longitude changes, the local (sun) time changes too — 15° of longitude equals 1 hour. Standard time is the single official clock time a whole country agrees to follow, based on one chosen meridian, instead of every place using its own local time.

✏️ In-text Activities (Page by Page)

📄 Page 16 — Activity: Reading the City Map (Fig. 1.1) APTEACHERS.IN

1 Mark the hospital. The hospital is the pink building with a red cross, shown near the middle of the map.

2 What is the meaning of the blue-coloured areas? Blue always shows water bodies — here it is the small lake/stream running near the railway station.

3 Which is farther from the railway station — school, Nagar Panchayat, or public garden? The public garden is the farthest, as it lies at the opposite corner of the map from the railway station.

Class Activity: Draw a map of your school and nearby streets in groups, then compare. (Open activity — no fixed answer; check that directions, a scale, and symbols are included.)

📄 Page 18 — Activity: Scale, Directions & the City Map Locating Places on the Earth

1 Draw the school playground (40 m × 30 m) at scale 1 cm = 10 m; then find the diagonal.
On paper, the rectangle is 4 cm × 3 cm. Using the diagonal rule (3-4-5 triangle), the diagonal on paper = 5 cm. Real length of the diagonal = 5 × 10 m = 50 metres.

2 Mark each statement about the city map True or False:

1. The market is north of the hospital. — False (the market lies south of the hospital)
2. The museum is southeast of the bank. — True
3. The railway station is northwest of the hospital. — True
4. The lake is northwest of the apartment blocks. — False (the lake lies southwest of the apartments)

Reflection: Which direction is your home from school? (Open answer — decide using a compass or Google Maps with your school as the centre.)

📄 Page 20 — Activity: Map Symbols

Draw a rough map of your locality showing your home, school, and landmarks, with cardinal directions and a few Survey-of-India-style symbols (e.g., ⛪ place of worship, 🚉 railway line, 🌊 river). (Open activity — check that directions and symbols are correctly used.)

📄 Page 24 — Activity: The Chess Coordinate Game APTEACHERS.IN

1 White opened with the queen's pawn: d2 to d4. Write Black's matching reply.
Black plays the mirror move: d7 to d5 — moving its own queen's pawn two squares forward to meet White's pawn in the centre.

📄 Page 28 — Activity: Latitude & Longitude of Cities

1 Note the approximate latitude and longitude of Mumbai, Kolkata, Singapore, and Paris:

• Mumbai — about 19°N, 73°E
• Kolkata — about 22°N, 88°E
• Singapore — about 1°N, 104°E
• Paris — about 49°N, 2°E

📄 Page 36 — Activity: Porbandar & Tinsukia Phone Call

1 Why has the sun set in Tinsukia (Assam) while it is still daylight in Porbandar (Gujarat)? Find the time difference (longitude gap ≈ 30°).
Tinsukia lies much farther east than Porbandar, so the Earth's spin brings the sun there — and takes it away — earlier. Time difference = 30° × 4 minutes/degree = 120 minutes = 2 hours. Tinsukia's local time is 2 hours ahead of Porbandar's.

📄 Page 38 — Activity: Local Time vs Standard Time Locating Places on the Earth

1 Use the Gujarat–Assam example to explain local time vs standard time.
Both Gujarat and Assam follow the same clock time — Indian Standard Time (IST). But their local (sun) time is different because they lie on different longitudes: Assam's real sun-time is about 2 hours ahead of Gujarat's. So people in Assam see daylight and darkness much earlier than their IST clock suggests, while Gujarat's clock time matches its local time more closely.

📘 Questions, Activities and Projects — Pages 42–44 APTEACHERS.IN

1 Rohan is going on a trek. Which of the following will help him locate spots on his map? (A. Clock B. Calculator C. Compass D. Thermometer/pencil)
Answer: C — the Compass, because it shows directions (N, S, E, W), which are needed to locate spots on a map.

2 Name the physical object that represents the Earth.
A Globe.

3 Why is it 5:30 pm in India when it is 12 noon in London?
India's standard meridian (82.5°E) lies well east of London's Prime Meridian (0°). Indian Standard Time is always 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, so when it is noon in London, it is already 5:30 pm in India.

4 Why do we need symbols and colours in a map?
A map has very little space, so symbols and colours let us show many features (roads, rivers, forests, buildings) clearly and quickly, without writing long descriptions everywhere.

5 Mark True or False, with a reason:

• All parallels of latitude have the same length. — False: They get smaller as you move towards the poles; only the Equator is the largest circle.
• The length of a meridian of longitude is half that of the Equator. — True: A meridian is a half-circle (pole to pole), while the Equator is a full circle.
• The South Pole has a latitude of 90°S. — True.
• In Assam, the local time and the IST are identical. — False: Assam's local time is about 2 hours ahead of IST because of its longitude.
• Lines separating time zones are identical with meridians of longitude. — False: They mostly follow country borders, so they bend instead of being perfectly straight.
• The Equator is also a parallel of latitude. — True: It is latitude 0°, the reference parallel.

6 Two cities lie on the same longitude — one near the Equator, one near the North Pole. Compare their climate and seasons.
The city near the Equator gets almost direct, strong sunlight all year, so it stays hot with little change in season (torrid/tropical climate). The city near the North Pole gets slanting, weak sunlight, so it stays cold with very large differences between summer and winter (frigid climate with strong seasons) — because latitude decides how directly the sun's rays fall on a place.

7 Crossword — Answers:

• 1. Lets you squeeze a huge area into your map — Scale
• 2. A measure of distance from the Prime Meridian — Longitude
• 3. Latitude & longitude together allow us to locate a place — Coordinates
• 4. A convenient sphere — Globe
• 5. The longest parallel of latitude — Equator
• 6. The place the Prime Meridian is attached to — Greenwich
• 6. What latitudes and longitudes together create — Grid
• 7. The time we all follow in India — IST
• 8. So convenient to find your way — Directions
• 9. On top of the world — North Pole
• 10. A measure of distance from the Equator — Latitude
• 11. Abbreviation for the line across which day and date change — IDL (International Date Line)

8 Using Fig. 5.2 (scale 2.5 cm = 500 km), find the real distance from the Narmada estuary to the Ganga estuary.
Method: measure the straight-line gap between the two estuary points on the map with a ruler (in cm), then multiply by 200 km (since 1 cm = 200 km on this scale). Based on their real locations (Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat to the Sundarbans, West Bengal), the actual distance works out to roughly 1,300 km — students should confirm the exact figure using their own copy of Fig. 5.2.

9 Find what you have in the eight directions from your home or school.
Open activity — list a landmark for each of N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, SW.

10 Delhi (29°N, 77°E) and Bengaluru (13°N, 77°E) — what is the difference in local time?
No difference (0 minutes). Local time depends only on longitude, and both cities share almost the same longitude (77°E); their different latitudes do not affect local time.

11 Difference between local time and standard time (100–150 words):
Local time is the time calculated from the exact position of the sun at a particular longitude — every place with a different longitude has a slightly different local time. This becomes inconvenient for a whole country, since neighbouring towns would all show different clock times. To solve this, a country picks one meridian and follows a single standard time based on it. India's Standard Time (IST) is based on 82.5°E longitude and applies to the entire country, from Gujarat to Assam. This means two places in India may have different local (sun) times, but the same standard clock time. Standard time makes railway timetables, schools, and offices work smoothly across the country, even though the sun may rise and set at different real moments in different regions.

Note: Answers to open-ended, activity-based and drawing questions (map-making, group discussions, local surveys) will vary by student; guidance and expected approach have been given above.