Travel Trouble
The document you need to travel internationally
What is a passport?
The number of hours in a day
What is 24 hours?
Name one type of weather that could affect travel.
What is snow, rain, thunderstorms, wind, fog, ice, etc.?
The four cardinal directions.
What is north, south, east, west?
The general direction you are traveling from New York to California.
What is west?
The purpose of airport security screening
What is keeping passengers and aircraft safe by detecting prohibited or dangerous items?
If it is 3:00 PM, is that before or after noon?
What is after noon?
A pilot is told that strong winds and thunderstorms are expected along the planned route. Name TWO reasons the airline might decide to change the route.
What is safety, avoiding dangerous weather, turbulence, protecting passengers/aircraft; etc.?
The direction that is directly opposite north.
What is south?
The information on a map that helps you know which direction you are traveling.
What is a compass rose?
Why a traveler may need to pay attention to the time at their destination instead of just the time at home
What are time zones?
New York is in the Eastern Time Zone. If you travel to a location that is two time zones west of New York, the local time will be....(earlier or later)
What is earlier?
The reason an airline cares about the weather along a flight route.
What is severe weather can make flying dangerous or require a route change?
Which comes first when writing a coordinate: latitude or longitude?
What is latitude?
1 inch represents 100 miles on a map. The number of miles that 4.5 inches represents.
450 miles
The most likely reason that as Stanley is traveling east he suddenly realizes his watch doesn't match the local time.
What is he crossed into a different time zone?
The imaginary line that is associated with changing the calendar date when traveling around the world
What is the International Date Line?
A plane is scheduled to fly through an area experiencing a severe thunderstorm. The airline should...
What is consider a different route?
What latitude tell us about a location.
What is how far north or south it is from the Equator?
The reason measuring distance on a map be useful when planning a trip.
What is it helps determine how far you have to travel and can help estimate travel time?
Name three things you could use to help you figure out where you are and how you got there if you traveled somewhere you had never been before.
What is a map, compass, coordinates/GPS, directions, landmarks, etc.?
Stanley leaves a place at 10:00 AM and travels to a location that is 3 hours ahead. What time is it there when he leaves?
What is 1:00 PM?
The main goal of choosing a new route when a storm suddenly blocks the planned route?
What is get the aircraft safely around the dangerous weather and continue the trip?
What longitude tells us about a location
What is how far east or west it is from the Prime Meridian?
A route is 600 miles long. If a traveler can cover 200 miles per day, the amount of days the trip take is...