Question

• Can you see India?
• Can you recognise any other place?
• Where is the sea?
• Do you find anything similar between the globe and this picture of the earth? In what ways are they different?
• Do you think Sunita could make out Pakistan, Nepal and Burma separately, when she saw the earth from space?

Answer 1

• Yes, we can see India. Its shape is quite distinct from other countries.

• Yes, we can recognise the huge landmasses called continents. These are: Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica.

• The portion of the earth’s photograph that is looking blue is all sea water.

• Globe and earth are similar in the manner that both of them are round in shape.

  They are different in the following manner:

  Picture shown	Globe
  It is a real photograph of the earth.	It is a model of the earth.
  There is no division line separating the countries and states.	There are division lines separating the countries and states.

• I think Sunita could not have made out Pakistan, Nepal and Burma separately, when she saw the earth from space. This is because she could not see the lines of division between the countries from space.