Q3 of 9 Page 12

Look at the world map of time zone in the text page 13.

a) If you travel from Vijayawada to Paris to which time zone are you moving? ______


b) If you are travelling from Hyderabad to Tokyo which time zone are you moving? __________.

(a) Vijayawada, being a city in South India, belongs to the Indian Standard Time zone (IST). If you travel from Vijayawada to Paris, you are flying to the Central European Time Zone (CET), to which all the European countries belong. CET is 4.5 hours behind IST.


(b) If you travel from Hyderabad to Tokyo, you are moving from India to Japan. This means you are moving from the Indian Standard Time Zone (IST) to Japan Standard Time zone (JST). JST is 3.5 hours ahead of IST.


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