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title: Time zones and the date line — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» 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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# Time zones and the date line

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The 15 questions of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 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/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t1/) — Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. How far apart are they in longitude? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t2/) — Why did trains, not ships or horses, force countries to share one clock time? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t3/) — footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live. What time for him? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t4/) — What is strange about sunrise in western China? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t5/) — If you sailed around the world eastwards, would you gain or lose a day on your log? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t6/) — Why would trade with Australia matter more to Samoa by 2011? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t7/) — Why do countries close to the equator not need daylight saving time? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t8/) — Why does France have more time zones than Russia, which is much bigger? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t9/) — Kid says "the date line is straight cos it's just 180 degrees". Right? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t10/) — In EU5 your army marches from Lisbon to Moscow. Why would no real general of 1500 have worried about time zones? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t11/) — Bristol is west of London. Does local noon come before or after London's? — right ✓ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/e1/) — Ascertain the angular rotation of the Earth, expressed in degrees of longitude, accomplished in the course of one hour. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/e2/) — Whereas a traveller traverses the International Date Line in a westerly direction, determine the consequent alteration to the calendar date. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/e3/) — Identify the principal reason for which a uniform national time was adopted by the British railways. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Republic of India's standard time. — wrong ✗ · exam

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