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Time Zones
The world's time zones are based on Meridians of Longitude. There are 24 hours in a day, and 24 time zones. Each Zone is 15 degrees wide, which is the distance the sun appears to travel each hour.
As the earth is rotating on its axis in an easterly direction, time zones to your east are ahead of you. It is later in the day to the east, until you reach the International Date Line at 180 degrees. To your west, time is behind you. It is earlier in the day
To work out the local standard time, you add one hour for each time zone crossed to the east or subtract one hour for each time zone crossed to the west.
Some countries also have daylight savings, where clocks are usually advanced an hour in the summer months to make more use of the daylight hours.
When crossing the 180 degrees meridian the day changes. If you travel in an easterly direction across the International Date Line, the date goes back. You gain a day. If you travel in a westerly direction across it, you lose a day, the date goes forward.

A moment of reflection:
{prayer 8Mar.pptx}
{prayer for today 15 Mar.pptx}

A moment of reflection:
{prayer 5Mar.pptx}8Mar.pptx}

Wednesday, 20th Feb
Page 17, Skills 7, 9,10,11
Friday, 8th March
Complete definitions of the following:
Latitude
Longitude
Area Reference
Grid Reference
Compass
Triangulation
Equator
Prime Meridian
Scale
Topographic Maps
GPS
Complete copying map from page 11

Mapping the world
Scale
The scale of the map is the relationship between a distance on the map and actual distance on the ground.
BOLTSS
Border

A moment of reflection:
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Recording large amounts of detailed information in a written format can be complicated and time consuming. A particularly useful method of recording the information in a photograph is by making a line drawing of the image. This is a good way of highlighting the main features.
When undertaking fieldwork, geographers often find that it is more effective to photograph a landscape rather than describe it. There are times, however, when the geographer needs to capture a scene but is without the equipment (camera) to do so. Since field sketches only require a pencil, some paper and something to lean on, they are a quick and simple way of recording the necessary information.
reproduce the image below as a line drawing:
{line drawing image.pptx}