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Understanding Earth's Shape and Geography

The document discusses the Earth's spherical shape, its continents, and oceans, highlighting key historical figures like Ferdinand Magellan and Yuri Gagarin. It explains tools for studying the Earth, such as globes and maps, detailing their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, it lists the five oceans and seven continents, providing definitions for related terms.

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Understanding Earth's Shape and Geography

The document discusses the Earth's spherical shape, its continents, and oceans, highlighting key historical figures like Ferdinand Magellan and Yuri Gagarin. It explains tools for studying the Earth, such as globes and maps, detailing their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, it lists the five oceans and seven continents, providing definitions for related terms.

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Looking at the earth

New words
1. Spherical

2. Earth

3. Ferdinand Magellan

4. Journey

5. Astronauts

6. Voyage

7. Model

8. Globe

9. Continents

10. Oceans

Notes
1. Our planet earth is spherical in shape.

2. Earth is a little flat at the top and the bottom has a bulge in the middle.

3. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese sailor. His journey proved the earth was round.

4. Later, astronauts went to space formed that Earth is round.

Tools to study the earth

Globe
1. Earth is huge in size.

2. Globe is a small round model of Earth.

3. A globe tells us how the oceans, countries are placed on the Earth's surface.
Disadvantages of globe
1. One half of the earth can be seen at the time on a globe. We need to rotate the globe to
see the other half.

2. Due to its small size, it's not possible to study the places on the globe in detail.

3. It is difficult to carry the globe from one place to another.

Map
1. Map is a drawing of the Earth on a flat surface.

2. Land and water bodies can be viewed at one glance on a map.

3. Map can be folded and carried easily.

4. Very large maps are called wall maps which can be hung on the walls.

5. Special book of maps are called atlas.

6. Cartographers are people who make maps.

Looking at the earth


1. From the space Earth appears to be a big blue ball with green and brown spots.

2. Land appears in green and brown colour while the sea is in blue.

3. Large areas of land are called continents.

4. Water bodies are called oceans.

5. Yuri Gagarin was the first Astronaut to travel.

Oceans
Large bodies of water are called oceans.

They have salty water.


There are 5 oceans on the earth namely

1. Pacific Ocean

2. Atlantic Ocean

3. Indian Ocean

4. Arctic Ocean

5. Antarctic Ocean

Pacific Ocean is the deepest and the largest ocean in the world.

Continents
Large areas of land on the earth surface are called continents.

Land in each continent is available in different forms called landforms.

There are seven continents namely

1. Asia

2. Africa

3. North America

4. South America

5. Antarctica

6. Europe

7. Australia

Asia is the biggest continent in the world.

Australia is the smallest continent in the world.

Words with meanings


1. Globe - around model of the earth.

2. Map - drawing of the Earth on a flat surface.


3. Wall maps - large maps that are usually hung on the walls.

4. Atlas - special book of maps.

5. Oceans - large water bodies on the Earth's surface.

6. Continents - large areas of land on the Earth's surface.

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