Draft:Geographic coordinates/Quiz

Geographic coordinates is a lecture from the school of geology.

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Once you’ve read the resource on geographic coordinates and studied it, the links contained within, listed under See also, External links, in the template, you should have adequate background to get 100 %.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, The Atlantic Ocean is crossed by the equator. + Yes - No
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{The Sun as a star has what geographical property? - it's a primordial population III star - it passes once a year across the Lockman Hole - silicates have been discovered in its interior structure - optical reflectance studies have found evidence of magnesium - it has a surface temperature of ~700 K + it has a longitude and latitude grid system for locating active regions
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{True or False, India is crossed by the equator. - TRUE + FALSE
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{When sea level is present, what characteristics are readily observed? + mean high tide + mean low tide + glacial periods + hydroisostatic rebound - temperatures above 103 K - salt flats
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{True or False, The Prime Meridian crosses Antarctica. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Particularly with respect to the present, in the last 10 kyr sea level has never been what? { higher (i) }
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{True or False, The angle between the object and the observer's local horizon is called altitude. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following is not a prominent contributor associated with a horizontal coordinate system? + the blue sky - zenith - local horizon - azimuth - altitude - great circle
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{Yes or No, All of France is east of the Prime Meridian. - Yes + No
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{Two high-speed aircraft leave from the point where the Prime Meridian intersects the equator at identical speeds. One plane seeks to circumnavigate the globe by heading north, the other by heading east. Which one will win: the one heading North or the one heading East? { North (i) }
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{Yes or No, Gabon straddles the equator. + Yes - No
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{Which geographical phenomena are associated with the Earth? - quartz is the second most abundant mineral + an atmosphere containing CO2 + a north geographic and magnetic pole + a rotational axis + a prime meridian + a cycle of lower temperatures in each latitudinal hemisphere - a cycle of higher temperatures in each longitudinal hemisphere
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{True or False, A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Mars to be specified by a set of numbers and/or letters. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Yes or No, The island of Madagascar is south of the equator. + Yes - No
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{Astronomy is performed all around the surface of the Earth by? { location (i) }
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{Which of the following are phenomena associated with grid systems? + geographic coordinates + the Royal Observatory in Greenwich + French Institut Géographique National (IGN) maps + a longitude meridian passing through Paris + a local center of civilization + altitude
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{True or False, An observatory is a place. + TRUE - FALSE
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{The galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates, with the Sun as its center, a primary direction aligned with the approximate center of the Milky Way galaxy, and a fundamental plane approximately in the what? { galactic plane (i) }
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Questioning astrogeography helps establish its inaccuracies.