Answers To Chapter 12
Answers To Chapter 12
Answers To Chapter 12
20 8.9 cm
Exercise 12.3 (page 212) 21 18p 1 15p 5 33p
1 2.47 cm 2 4.07 cm 22 15p
3 6.18 cm 4 7.48 cm
5 0.231 cm 6 32.9 cm Internet Challenge 12 (page 228)
7 1.99 cm 8 8.46 cm 1 The Earth’s shadow on the Moon (during a lunar
9 a) 3848.4 cm2 b) 35 cm eclipse) is round.
c) 94.4 cm 2 The Flat Earth Society.
10 4.77 m 3 Diameter 12 756 km (7926 miles), circumference
40 074 km (24 900 miles)
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4 Diameter 12 714 km (7900 miles), circumference 7 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charlie Burton, from 1979
39 942 km (24 818 miles) to 1982.
5 A Great Circle is a circle on the surface of a sphere, 8 Round the world yacht races typically take over
whose centre coincides with the centre of the sphere. 50 000 km (over 32 000 miles). They do not complete
The equator is a Great Circle. a Great Circle, but they travel a greater equivalent
6 Ferdinand Magellan, from August 1519 to September distance, and cross every line of longitude.
1522, taking 3 years. (Magellan died during the 9 Greek geo 5 Earth, metron 5 measure
voyage; the expedition was commanded by Juan 10 Check students’ answers.
Sebastian del Cano thereafter.)
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