Chapter 1 Flashcards
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If you were on a ship in the 1700s, traveling from the Far East, London-bound, and staring across the Indian Ocean, What are some dangers?🌊 🌊 🌊 🚢
Pirates, sudden storms, rocky coastlines, and mutiny.
Though dangers like sudden storms or piracy sound dangerous, what is the most dangerous? ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️
Veering off coast into endless sea because you can’t seem to plot your map.
When and what did John Harrison develop?👨
A special clock called the marine chronometer in the mid-1700s.
What is longitude? 🌍
Lines east and west of the prime meridian.
What happened to the people on boats before John Harrison’s invention?🕰
Captains regularly lost hundreds of men and tons of cargo to starvation and sudden storms while trying to find land to land on.
Name a famous ship disaster because of longitude.👨✈️
Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell’s Disaster.
What did Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell lose?
4 of his 5 warships and 2000 troops in 1707 after getting the Scilly Isles wrong longitude which are off the southwestern tip of England.
As the fog settled in Scilly Isles, what happened?🏝 🪨 🌫
The ships crashed into the rocks and went down like stones.
What did Harrison’s invention do?😕
Compare the time in Greenwich, England to tell them their longitude
Give some examples of no information being bad on land. ℹ️ ℹ️
Hannibal almost froze to death in the Alps because didn’t know which time of year. Lewis and Clark almost perished in Idaho and Montano because they didn’t know how big the Rockies were; and what were the Vikings thinking when trying to grow barley in Iceland?!
What were the wise words of Alexander Graham Bell? 🔔 🛎
Geography is the world and all the things in it.
How does oil from Kuwait get to Italy?
Through the Suez Canal.
Where do tropical rainforests grow?
Near the equator.
Who faces Mecca while praying?
Muslims
Which continent is most populated?
Asia
