Weekly Response: Navigation

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

 

  1. 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

 

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

 

→GPS uses satellites to track your location. The information from the satellites then go to the receiver aka your phone.

 

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

 

  1. a) True b) False

 

  1. 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 Using directions from the sky. My ancestors used celestial navigation.
global Relating to the world. Global warming is important.
compass A device with a magnetic pointer to point to directions. I used my compass to go back home.

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