Sample activity of integration – The earth and its movement

Your friend has been given a two-year scholarship to study a course at a college in Vancouver, Canada. The day of opening has been given. Use the knowledge and skills you have gained from this chapter, from any other geographical source or from personal experience to help your friend to plan for

i) travel.

(ii) a comfortable stay in that part of the world.

Write a detailed explanation and share with the rest of your class.

Revision exercise

1. Write true or false for each of the following statements

(a) The earth makes a complete rotation in 24 hours.

(b) The earth rotates from East to West

(c) The earth’s revolution causes day and night.

(d) It takes 365% days for the earth to make a complete revolution around the sun.

(e) The revolution of the earth along its orbit causes seasonal variations in the temperature

2. Explain how rotation of the earth causes day and night 3.

(a) State three differences between rotation of the earth and revolution of the earth.

(b) Make a poster to show the differences that you have listed in (a).

4. Why do the lengths of days and nights vary at different times of the year?

5. Name:

(a) the main line of latitude (b) the main line of longitude

6. Explain how you can locate a place using the lines of latitude and longitude.
7. Supposing the local time at Greenwich which lies along the Prime Meridian is 12 noon. What is the local time at

(a) longitude 35°W?

(b) longitude 150 E7