Day: May 16, 2022

Navigation

Highlight the correct answer, or type in what you think is correct.

 

1. The technique of looking for and locating objects on the shore to navigate is called?

 

1. a) Navigation 
2. b) Dead Reckoning
3. c) Piloting
4. d) Lighthouses

 

2.What is dead reckoning? 

 

1. a) Using objects on the shore to navigate        
2. b) Recording how far you have travelled in each direction based on a fixed point
3. c) Using the stars and Sun to decide which way to go
4. d) Making dead people decide which way to go

 

3. Using the Sun, Moon, and stars to navigate is called?

 

1. a) Celestial movement b) Global Positioning System
2. c) Celestial Navigation d) none of the above

 

4. Explain, in your own words, how you think GPS (Global Positioning Systems) work.

 

→ GPS satellites circle the Earth twice a day in a precise orbit. 

 

5. True or False: Submarines use high frequency radiation to navigate underwater.

 

1. a) True b) False

 

6. What are the people outside of an aircraft who help navigate planes called?

 

1. a) Pilots b) Navigators
2. c) Air Traffic Controllers d) Playstation Controllers

 

WORD	DEFINITION	YOUR OWN SENTENCE
celestial	relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity.	The late afternoon sunlight gave the room a celestial glow.
global	relating to the whole world: worldwide.	All this will happen eventually, I believe, even if global hunger policy were not to change one iota.
compass	an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.	A compass shows you which direction is north, south,west and East.

 

8. Explain: Birds were released by navigators from ships to find land, but how else, do you think, navigators could use wild birds to find land?

 

→They can use birds to gather Food and materials.