Atlas worksheet answers
Location 1: Compass points
1a (From top, clockwise) North, East, South, West
b
(From top right, clockwise) Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
2
Yellow car: (top box) above: right, below: north; (right box) above: back, below: east; (bottom box)
above: left, below: south; (left box) above: front, below: west.
Red car: (top box) above: front, below: north, (right box) above: right, below: east; (bottom box)
above: back, below: south; (left box) above: left, below: west.
3a Bayswater: West; Brighton: North; Eltham: Southwest; Glenroy: South; Keilor: Southeast; Narre
Warren: Northwest; Truganina: East; Williamstown: Northeast
b
i. Point Cook; ii. Sorrento; iii. Mount Martha; iv. Queenscliff; v. McCrae; vi. Swan Island; vii. Point
Nepean; viii. Carrum
Location 2: Alphanumeric references
1a jet, train, truck, wagon
b
train, semi-trailer, bus, horse
2a train
b
motorcycle
3
A4 – miss; D5 – miss; E3 – hit; B2 – miss; C1 – hit
4a i. Mount Nebo; ii. Wacol; iii. Redland Bay; iv. Lake Manchester; v. Logan River and Albert River
b
i. C3; ii. A2; iii. C5; iv. D3
5a i. incorrect, D5; ii. incorrect, Q4; iii. correct
b
i. H6; ii. A4; iii. N2; iv. H3
Location 3: Area and grid references
3a yes
b
no
c
buildings
d
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e
Mountain Pygmy Possum breeding habitat
f
a chairlift
g
water tanks
h
GR045163
Location 4: Latitude and longitude
2
‘Darwin’ is the name of the city; ’80 B1’ is the map and alphanumeric reference it is located at in
the atlas; ‘12.27S’ is the line of latitude the city is located on; ‘130.50E’ is the line of longitude the
city is located on.
3
All three cities are listed as highly polluted (page 59 of the OAP3).
4
Adelaide – correct
Christchurch – correct
Suva – incorrect, should be Nadi
Honolulu – correct
Los Angeles – incorrect, should be San Francisco
Mexico City – correct
Rio de Janeiro – incorrect, should be Sao Paulo
London – correct
Paris – incorrect, should be Rome
Johannesburg – correct
Nairobi – correct
Dubai – incorrect, should be Doha
Mumbai – correct
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Location 5: Time zones
1a Sydney is ten hours ahead of GMT.
London is the same as GMT.
New York is five hours behind GMT.
Moscow is three hours ahead of GMT.
Perth is eight hours ahead of GMT.
b
Best done in class.
c
China – advantage – anywhere you travel in China, the time will be the same. Disadvantage – the
sun rises in western China three hours earlier than the east coast, but the time is the same.
Russia – advantage – the time on the clock matches the movement of the Sun. Disadvantage –
Russia has eight different time zones to navigate through.
2
Any of the following: Northern Territory and South Australia within Australia, India, Myanmar,
Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Iran. They are all on the half hour rather than hourly mark of time
zones because they sit on the halfway point of each of the hourly time zones.
3a The International Date Line is the line of longitude at 180° east and west of the Prime Meridian,
which runs through Greenwich in England. The date changes at this point by one day. If you
travel west to east across the International Date Line, you gain a day.
b
The line does not follow the 180° line of latitude exactly because it takes country borders into
account. Therefore you don’t have a country with one date for half the country, and one date for
the other half of the country every day.
4
JJ should call London after 3pm and before 11pm Perth time.
JJ should call Lagos after 2pm and before 11pm Perth time.
JJ should call Moscow after midday until approx 11pm Perth time.
JJ should call Sydney after 7am and before 8pm Perth time.
JJ should call Los Angeles after 7am and before 3pm Perth time.
JJ should call Juneau after 7am and before 4pm Perth time.
5
Midnight
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