Arrange the following airports of North America from north to south
(A) Mexico City
(B) Chicago
(C) Vancouver
(D) New Orleans
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (C), (B), (D), (A)
(C) Vancouver — first, the northernmost. It is on the Pacific coast of Canada, at about 49°N.
(B) Chicago — second. It is in the north of the U.S.A., on the shore of Lake Michigan, a little north of 40°N.
(D) New Orleans — third. It is on the Gulf of Mexico coast in the south of the U.S.A., near 30°N.
(A) Mexico City — last, the southernmost. It lies south of the Tropic of Cancer, at about 19°N.
NCERT (2026-27): “Inter-Continental Air Routes … In the Northern Hemisphere, there is a distinct east-west belt of inter-continental air routes. Dense network exists in Eastern U.S.A., Western Europe and Southeast Asia. U.S.A. alone accounts for 60 per cent of the airways of the world. New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt Rome, Moscow, Karachi, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago are the nodal points where air routes converge or radiate to all continents.”
Fig. 7.16: Major Airports |
