Earth Geometry Year 12

Time Zones

100

UTC represents:

Coordinated Universal time

200

The name of the place in the UK that all time zones are based on.

What is Greenwich?

300

A place with a location of (18S, 75W) has a time difference of what from Greenwhich?

5 hours beind

400

City A is 30^oN, 120^oE and City B is 44^oN, 45^oW. The time difference between these cities is:

What is 11 hours?

500

A person is in Brisbane (GMT+10). This person wants to set the video recorder to tape the Superbowl which is being played in Atlanta (GMT-5) and televised live in Brisbane. The Superbowl is due to begin at 7pm on Sunday in Atlanta. At what day and time will this person need to set the device to begin recording?

10am Monday

Latitude

100

The name of the parallel of latitude that is a great circle

What is the equator?

200

The location of Tokyo, Japan is 36^oN, 140^oE. Possible coordinates for a town 45^o south of here are:

9^oS, any longtiude

300

Two towns are located on the same parallel of latitude. The formula to determine the distance between these places is:

111.2*cos(theta)*angular difference

400

Quito (0, 78W) and Kampala (0, 32E) are two cities on the equator. Calculate the distance between them to the nearest 100 kilometres.

12 200 km

500

Determine the shortest distance between (50S, 150E) and (50S, 54W)

11150.6 km

Longitude

100

The name of the line of longitude at 180 degrees

What is the international dateline

200

The largest angle for latitude is:

180 degrees

300

Hanoi, Vietnam is located at 21^oN, 106^oE. Tuxpan, Mexico is located at 21^oN, 97^oW. The smallest angular difference between then is

157^o

400

Calculate the distance between the North pole and the South pole in km.

20 016 km

500

A and B are two points on the surface of the Earth with coordinates (56N, 122W) and (3S, 122W). Calculate the distance AB to the nearest 100 km.

6600km

Mixed

100

In NSW it is 9:00 am daylight savings time. Western Australia does not observe daylight savings. The time in perth is:

6:00am

200

What is the distance between the Tropic of Capricorn, 23.4394 S and the Tropic of cancer, 23.4394 N?

Give to the nearest kilometre.

5213 km

300

Determine the distance in kilometers Vancouver (49N, 123W) to the closest pole (North or South).

4559km to North Pole

400

A plane is flying from Munich (48N, 15E) to New York (41N, 74W). THe flight departs Munich at 6pm and takes 7 hours. Calculate the time of arrival in New York.

7pm same day

500

A flight leaves Melbourne (40S, 150E) at 5pm Tuesday on an 18-hour flight to Frankfurt (50N, 15E). Calculate the time of arrival in Frankfurt if it is daylight savings time in Frankfurt.

3am Wednesday