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What is the maximum possible latitude of any location on Earth?
Return 90°
What is the latitude of the observer?
Return 42° north
What is the latitude indicated by the instrument?
Return 40°N
What is the latitude of Oswego, NY to the nearest minute?
Return 43°30` N
Raoul measures the altitude of Polaris from his ship every night for 10 consecutive nights and finds that it is decreasing. In which direction is Raoul’s ship sailing?
Return South
What is the maximum number of degrees of longitude of any location on Earth?
Return 180°
Why is the size of a degree of longitude measured near the equator different from a degree measured closer to either pole?
Return The Earth is not a perfect sphere. It’s an oblate spheroid!
To the nearest minute, what is the longitude of Ithaca, NY
Return 76°30`W
What is a synonym for the term ‘longitude’?
Return Meridian
What do all lines of longitude have in common?
Return They are all of equal length OR, they all run in a north-south direction.
When it’s 6AM at location E what time is it at location C?
Return 6AM
If it’s 6PM at location C, what is the time at location D?
Return 4AM
Wanda is on the phone with her friend, Raoul. Wanda insists that it is 2AM. Raoul claims that the correct time is 10PM. How many degrees of longitude separate these two friends?
Return 60°
Conan checks the time of sunset every night from the deck of his ship. He determines that it is setting one hour later each night. In which direction is the ship moving?
Return WES T
The circumference of the Earth is about 40,000 km at the equator. If there is a 4 hour time difference between two locations on the equator, how many kilometers separate these two points?
Return Aproximately 6, km
What is the contour interval of this map?
Return 100 feet* * Note: If the key at the bottom is in miles, then elevation will also be in the English system. Feet, not meters.
Towards which direction does Jennifer brook flow?
Return Towards the southeast
What is the highest possible elevation, to the nearest whole number, shown on this map
Return 199 meters
If the distance between points X and Y is 3.0 meters, what is the temperature gradient between them? (Give units)
Return 2°C/m
Between which two locations (letters) on this map is the steepest slope?
Return Between B & F (contour lines are closest together)
Which 3 locations (letters) on this map are at the same elevation?
Return X, B, and Y
What is the elevation of location B? (elevation in meters)
Return 45 meters
Give the latitude and longitude of location A.
Return 15°S,30°E
What is the interval of this map (in feet)?
Return 40 feet
What is the lowest possible elevation of point B (in meters)?
Return 21 meters
What is the time at location C?
Return 6PM
What is the latitude & longitude of location D?
Return 30°N,120°E
What is the gradient between points A and B?
Return 0 m/km
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of Birdsville?
Return 30°S, 140° to 150° E (use map on page 5 of reference tables)
Give the latitude and longitude (to the nearest minute) where you would likely find halite.
Return 42°30`N, 76°30`W
When it is 8AM at location A, what is the time at location B?
12 noon