NCERT Solutions for Class 6th Social Science Chapter 2 Oceans — LET'S EXPLORE
Book page 32 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Locate the five oceans and, in the table below, mark the hemisphere or hemispheres they belong to.
Fig. 2.3, page 32 — a world map showing the five oceans, their conventional boundaries, and the continents. Redrawn; not to scale.
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Answer
Find the Equator on Fig. 2.3 — it is the dashed line running across the middle of the map. Everything above it is the Northern Hemisphere, everything below it the Southern Hemisphere. Now read off each ocean:
Ocean
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Why
Pacific Ocean
✓
✓
It stretches from the Bering Strait in the far north right down to the Southern Ocean, so the Equator cuts straight through it.
Atlantic Ocean
✓
✓
The same — it runs from Greenland in the north to Antarctica in the south.
Indian Ocean
✓
✓
Most of it lies south of the Equator, but its northern arms — the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, on either side of India — are in the Northern Hemisphere.
Southern Ocean
—
✓
It is the ring of water around Antarctica, entirely in the far south.
Arctic Ocean
✓
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It surrounds the North Pole, entirely in the far north.
In both hemispheres: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian
Northern Hemisphere only: Arctic
Southern Hemisphere only: Southern (Antarctic)
Size order, from the same map: Pacific (largest) → Atlantic → Indian → Southern → Arctic (smallest). An easy way to remember it: P–A–I–S–A.
Why three oceans lie in both halves: the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans all run north–south, so the Equator has to cross them. The Arctic and Southern Oceans run around a pole, east–west, so they never come near the Equator at all.