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Question 1. Find the relative location of the White Cliffs of Dover in Great Britain. (This means you should state where the Cliffs are in relation to the rest of the island.) Be sure to include the following in your answer.

-Folkestone

-Deal

-The Strait of Dover

Question 2. Give the name and location of an ocean current that a sailor would need to know about when navigating. You do not need to answer in a complete sentence.

-This site list ocean currents of the world: World Ocean Review

Question 3. Give the name and location of the largest ocean in the world. You do not need to answer in a complete sentence.

-Here's a map showing the world's oceans and seas: Map

Question 4. Give the name and location of a sea that has access to an ocean. You do not need to answer in a complete sentence.

Question 5. What strait is located between the tip of South America and the Island of Tierra del Fuego?

Question 6. Name the cape that lies farthest to the south in Africa. You do not need to answer in a complete sentence.

Question 7. Name a country in the Eastern Hemisphere. You do not need to answer in a complete sentence.

Question 8. How many miles is it from where you live to the nearest ocean? Be sure to name your town and state in your answer.

Question 9. What time zone do you live in? How many hours away from Greenwich Mean Time is your time zone? Does this amount stay the same throughout the year? Please explain.

-Hint: There's a time zone map in the background reading to the lesson.

Research

Question 10. Choose one of the following questions. Use the links in the lesson above to help you with your research:

a. Describe the ways that people in the South Pacific navigated the oceans. Tell me what techniques they used to know where they were, how close they were to land, and how they used the stars to navigate, and anything else you think is interesting about Polynesian navigation.

b. Explain how sailors navigated in the Age of Sail (1400's-1600's) Tell me what an astrolabe is, explain the problems they had with mapping at the time, and tell me how they used the stars and sun to figure out where they were. Be sure to include information about what the astrolabe would/would not measure.