Answers for Developing Globe Skills Lessons - Grade 6+

Lesson 1 - The Horizon Ring

No questions to answer

Lesson 2 - Distance

approximately 2,500 miles
approximately 5,000 miles
approximately 4,700 miles
approximately 4,750 miles
approximately 7,400 miles

Lesson 3 - Cardinal Direction

Africa
Indian Ocean
Antarctica, Australia
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

Lesson 4 - Intermediate Directions

North East
South West
Northwest
Southeast
Northwest
Southwest
India
New Zealand
South America

Lesson 5 - Latitude

Midway Island
New Zealand
Spain, Colorado, & China
Miami, FL
30 N
19 N
51 N
42 N
Capetown, South America
Oran, Algeria
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Khartoum, Sudan

Lesson 6 - Longitude

South America
Indian Ocean
Caribbean Sea & Canada
Australia
Indonesia & India
80 W
0
43 W
140 E
Mumbai (Bombay), India
Honolulu, Hawaii
Wellington, New Zealand
Cairo, Egypt

Lesson 7 - Parallels and Meridians

Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
Equator
24
Africa & Antarctica
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado New Mexico, & Texas

Lesson 8 - Locating Places

38N 122W
32S, 116E
56N, 38E
7N, 80E
35S, 56W
Rome, Italy
Stockholm, Sweden
Brasilia, Brazil
Washington DC
Beijing, China
Capetown, South Africa
New Delhi, India
Mexico City, Mexico
fifty-nine degrees north of the Equator and eighteen degrees east of the Prime Meridian
sixteen degrees south of the Equator and forty-eight degrees west of the Prime Meridian
thirty-nine degrees north of the Equator and seventy-seven degrees east of the Prime Meridian

Lesson 9 - Around the World

X Anchorage, Alaska;
Honolulu, Hawaii
approximately 2,800 miles
X Tokyo, Japan;
Shanghai, China
180th meridian
X Yangon, Myanmar;
Bombay, India
Southwest
X Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;
Ankara, Turkey
X Dublin, Ireland;
Reykjavik, Iceland
Southwest

Lesson 10 - Latitude Zones

low latitudes
middle latitudes
high latitudes
M= 35N, L = 23S, H=86S, L=25N
H=66N, M=45N, L=28S L=5S
M - Cape Town, South Africa, L - Miami, Florida US
H - Anchorage, Alaska, US M - Cairo, Egypt
M - Buenos Aires, Argentina L - Mexico City, Mexico
M - London, UK M - Edmonton, Alberta
M - Indianapolis, Indiana, US L - Honolulu, Hawaii, US
L - Kinshasa, Zaire M - Sydney, Australia
L - Hanoi, Viet Nam M - Tokyo, Japan

Uruguay
Tunisia

Lesson 11 - Rotation of the Earth

Denver, Colorado (could be Cheyenne, El Paso, Santa Fe, Albuquerque - actually any place between the east boundary of New Mexico and east side of Nevada)
Bombay, India
Honolulu, Hawaii
Madrid, Spain and London, UK
Ankara, Turkey
Tokyo, Japan7
about 150 degrees movement
Paris, France
San Francisco, CA and Montreal, Canada
Damascus, Syria

Lesson 12 - Global Time

7PM - Philadelphia, PA
2AM - Alexandria, Egypt
Midnight - Accra, Ghana
9AM - Kyoto, Japan
Midnight - London, Great Britain
5PM - Denver, CO
A. 5AM B. 4AM
C. 2AM D. 7AM
E. 8AM F. 9AM
G. 10AM H. 11AM

Lesson 13 - When the Day Changes

C
B
A
90
270 - It is 270 not 90. The question asked from midnight not before
East
Monday
Counterclockwise
Tuesday
The Prime Meridian
San Francisco, CA
X Sydney, Australia
X Capetown, South Africa
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Madrid, Spain
X Moscow, Russia
A - 10 AM, Saturday
B - 4 PM, Saturday
A - 7 PM, Saturday
B - 1 AM, Sunday
A - 5 AM, Sunday
B - 11 AM, Sunday
- 1 PM, Sunday
- 3 PM, Sunday
- 6 PM, Sunday
- 1 AM, Monday
Wed., June 24
Sun., July 28

Lesson 14 - Earth & Sun

1. The Equator
The South Pole
B

6 Tokyo, Japan
4 Portland, Oregon
1 Lagos, Nigeria
8 Barrow, Alaska
7 Helsinki, Finland
2 Mexico City, Mexico
3 Pretoria, South Africa
5 Dublin, Ireland
High Latitudes (check that the students have written the Sun heat percentages in the correct places along the International Date Line.)

Lesson 15 - The Changing Seasons

March 21 - Spring
September 23 - Fall
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
away
summer
March 21 (You may wish to check to see if the students have their globe oriented properly in the Horizon Ring and have written the orbit points in the proper places before they answer questions.)

Lesson 16 - Daylight Hours

8 - Antananarivo, Madagascar
4 - Houston, Texas
10 - Wellington, New Zealand
1 - Stockholm, Sweden
6 - Addis Abba, Ethiopia
9 - Newcastle, Australia
3 - Madrid, Spain
5 - Hanoi, Viet Nam
2 - Vancouver, Canada
7 - Lima, Peru
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
June and December
June 20 and 21 (approximately)
March 21 and September 23 (approximately)

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