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title: Directions, latitude and longitude — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 2 «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Directions, latitude and longitude

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The 15 questions of lesson 2 «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 82 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t1/) — Why is there a natural zero for latitude but not for longitude? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t2/) — Before 1884 the French counted longitude from Paris. What problem did that cause? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t3/) — Two towns are 2 degrees of latitude apart on the same meridian. Roughly how far apart are they? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t4/) — Your ship's clock, set to London time, reads 3 p.m. when the Sun is highest where you are. How far west of London are you? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t5/) — Where on Earth would the Pole Star sit right on the horizon? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t6/) — Bro says the Arctic Circle is at 66.6 cos it's just a random number. True? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t7/) — Why would an old map's compass instructions slowly become wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t8/) — If the Earth spun the other way, where would the Sun rise? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t9/) — You walk around the world near the North Pole. Why do you cross every longitude in a few steps? — right ✓ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t10/) — In EU5 the northern locations are cold and poor. What real thing does the game copy there? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/t11/) — How could Portuguese captains know how far south they had sailed along Africa? — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which the determination of longitude at sea remained impracticable prior to the eighteenth century. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/e2/) — Ascertain the approximate distance corresponding to a single degree of latitude upon the Earth's surface. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/e3/) — Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the prime meridian? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/e4/) — It is given that an observer in the northern hemisphere measures the Pole Star at an elevation of fifty degrees. Determine the observer's approximate latitude. — right ✓ · exam

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