STATION #7
Time Zones
Read the instructions carefully and finish the questions on your separate piece of paper
Make sure you fill in your team’s cheat sheet before leaving the station
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Student Answer Sheet  Station 7
Choose what time zone sheet is best for you to answer the following questions. You will need to change
which map you use as you work through it. You may come back to a map more than once. You will also
need to use your instruction sheets for some questions (pst, you can also use an Atlas if you want)
1. You are in Toronto having breakfast at 7 o’clock in the morning. Is it polite to call your cousin in Vancouver?
Yes No
2. You’re in Calgary and it is just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon. If you call an office in Ottawa is it likely to be
open? Yes No
3. You’re in Halifax on New Year’s Eve. You’re watching a TV countdown-to-New-Years show from
Charlottetown clicking over to midnight. Are your neighbors just about to start yelling, “Happy New Year”?
Yes No
4. You have an important interview early the next morning and know you must be asleep by
9 PM to be well rested so you do your best. The Toronto Maple Leafs (your favorite team) is playing in the
Stanley Cup Playoffs in Toronto at 5 PM their time. The game will last four hours. Will you be able to see the
whole game before you have to go to bed? Yes No
5. If it is 2:00 pm in Nova Scotia, what time is it in Saskatoon?
________ AM PM
6. If it is lunchtime at DP Todd Secondary School, what time is it in Ottawa?
________ AM PM
7. If a television show starts at 7:00 pm in New Brunswick, what time does it start in Newfoundland?
________ AM PM
8. If it is 9:30 am in Regina, what time is it in Newfoundland?
________ AM PM
9. If it is 10:00 pm in Whitehorse, Yukon, what time is it in Victoria?
________ AM PM
10. How many provinces share Atlantic Standard Time? _______________ provinces
What are the provinces? __________________________________________________________________
11. What provinces share Central Standard Time? _________________________________________________
12. If it is 6:00 am in Yellowknife, what time is it in P.E.I? ________ AM PM
13. According to the map, what time zone appears to be the largest? ___________________________________
14. According to the map, if you were to travel from Halifax to Toronto, how many times could you adjust your
watch? 1X 2X 3X 4X 5X 6X
15. A business person is flying from Moncton (NB) to Gander (NFLD), a trip that will take 2 hours. If the flight
leaves Moncton at 11:00 pm, when will the person arrive in Gander? _____________AM PM
16. How many world time zones are there? ___________ Why? _______________________________________
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17. Approximately how wide is each time zone? ____________________________________________________
18. Explain why time zone boundaries are not completely straight. _____________________________________
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19. Name the four major United States time zones. _________________________________________________
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20. If the time is 9:00 A.M. in Detroit, what time is it in:
A. Chicago___________________AM PM
B. Los Angeles_______________ AM PM
C. Honolulu_________________ AM PM
D. New York City_____________ AM PM
E. Denver____________________AM PM
21. If the time in London is 12:00 P.M. GMT, what time is it in:
A. Chicago ___________________AM PM
D. Paris ___________________AM PM
B. Moscow __________________ AM PM
E. Tokyo __________________AM PM
C. Buenos Aires ______________ AM PM
22. If the time in Chicago is 12:15 P.M., what time is it in:
A. New York __________________AM PM
D. Paris ____________________AM PM
B. Moscow _________________AM PM
E. Tokyo ___________________AM PM
C. Buenos Aires ______________AM PM
23. The International Date Line is halfway around the world from the Prime
Meridian (0 longitude). Therefore it is at __________ longitude.
24. The International Date Line is, by international agreement, where a
given day actually starts. East of the line is always one full day earlier in
time. So if it is Sunday west of the line it is ___________________ east of
the line. West of the line is always one day ___________________ in
time. If it is a Tuesday east of the line, it is _______________________
west of the line.
25. If it is Tuesday morning west of the International Date Line (eastern hemisphere), then what day is it east of
the International Date Line (western hemisphere)? _______________________
26. If it is January 7, 10:00 P.M. in Chicago, what date and time is it in London? _______________________
27. If it is October 29, 3:00 A.M. in Sydney, what date and time is it in Chicago? _________________________
28. A man living in Honolulu, Hawaii on Tuesday 12:00 P.M. calls his cousin in Tokyo, Japan. What time is it in
Tokyo? What calendar day is it? _____________________________________
29. If it is noon in Beijing, it is _______________________ AM in Berlin.
30. What time is it right now in Prince George as you work on this sheet?________________________________
What time (and day) is it right now in the following locations?
a. Washington, DC, USA _____________________________
b. London, UK _____________________________________
c. Moscow, Russia __________________________________
d. Lima, Peru ______________________________________
e. Berlin, Germany _________________________________
f. Cairo, Egypt _____________________________________
g. New Delhi, India _________________________________
h. Beijing, China ___________________________________
i. Tokyo, Japan ____________________________________
j. Canberra, Australia _______________________________
k. Brasilia, Brazil ___________________________________
l. Mexico City, Mexico ______________________________
m. Ottawa, Ontario ________________________________
n. Nairobi, Kenya _________________________________
o. Dakar, Senegal _________________________________
We learn time zones because they are a practical concern for all people who fly. The following questions
will take a bit of time but will help you practice time zone skills you’ll need in real life!
31. A flight leaves Seattle at 10:08 AM and arrives in Phoenix at 1:12 PM. What was the actual flying time of the
plane? _____________________________________________________________________________
32. A flight leaves O’Hare in Chicago at 2:12 PM. One hour and twenty-eight minutes later it lands in Atlanta. A
passenger on that flight then has a forty-five minute layover before its flight continues on to Tampa, where it lands
forty-six minutes later. At what time does the passenger set his watch when the plane lands in Tampa?
______________________
33. A plane leaves Boston at 7:06 AM headed for Chicago, where it lands two hours and twenty-two minutes later.
A passenger on that flight then has only thirty-five minutes to catch TWA flight 2011, which is scheduled to arrive
in Denver one hour and forty-eight minutes later. At what time in Denver will flight 2011 arrive, if it is on time?
_________________
34. A flight leaves St. Louis at 8:45 AM and is scheduled to land in New Orleans one hour and forty-eight minutes
later. What time does the plane actually land in New Orleans if it is eighteen minutes late? __________________
35. A passenger on American Airlines flight 706 leaves Miami at 8:15 AM bound for Las Vegas. The first leg of
his journey has a scheduled flight time to Dallas of two hours and thirty-seven minutes, but the flight arrives
seventeen minutes late. A passenger on that flight had a scheduled layover of forty-three minutes. He then
catches American Airlines flight 82 that continued on to Las Vegas, where it was supposed to land one hour and
fifty minutes later. But Flight 82 is also late, this time by twenty-three minutes. At what time does the passenger
set his watch to have the correct time in Las Vegas? ______________________________________
36. G.W. Timmons, who lives in Philadelphia, has a business meeting in Los Angeles scheduled for 2:00 PM at a
conference room in a hotel near the airport. He catches a plane in Philadelphia at 8:06 AM on a flight to Chicago
that lasts one hour and forty-seven minutes. He has a scheduled thirty-five minute layover in Chicago before
catching another flight on to Los Angeles. However, his plane is delayed in taking off, and he arrives in Chicago
just after five minutes before his connecting flight departs. Timmons races to Gate 46… but too late… and too
bad for Timmons! Flight 114 has just left the ground… on time! The next flight leaves in another hour and five
minutes. The airline officials place Timmons on the flight… which leaves on time for a four hour and two-minute
flight. Flight 1028 (Timmons’ new flight) arrives twelve minutes ahead of schedule. How much time does
Timmons have to get out of the airport, get to the hotel and prepare himself for this all-important meeting?
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