question archive Practicing and need some help to confirm my answer
Practicing and need some help to confirm my answer
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Practicing and need some help to confirm my answer.
1. It's 3PM on Friday in Los Angeles (UTC-8). You fly to Moscow, Russia (UTC +3). Your flight time is 12 hours and 30 minutes. What time and day is it when you arrive at Moscow?
2. What calculation is used to determine that Earth rotates 15o of longitude in an hour (as opposed to some other number of degrees)?
3. What is the instrument that was needed in order to accurately measure longitude?
4. so just wondering which of the following distortions can occur when a 3-D Earth is transformed to a 2-D Map? please select all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. Area
b. Direction
c. Distance
d. Elevation
e. Shape
5. would like to know what information is needed to convert a 3D spherical Earth to a 2D flat map?
Check all answers that are correct please.
Select one or more:
a. Contour Lines
b. Datum
c. Projection
d. Declination
e. Coordinate System
6. brief explanation of True North, Magnetic North, Magnetic Declination
