Response to text – Navigation.

                                                                                 Navigation

                               Highlight the correct answer, or type in what you think is correct.

 

1. The technique of looking for and locating objects on the shore to navigate is called?

 

• a) Navigation 
• b) Dead Reckoning
• c) Piloting
• d) Lighthouses

 

2.What is dead reckoning? 

 

1. a) Using objects on the shore to navigate        
2. b) Recording how far you have travelled in each direction based on a fixed point
3. c) Using the stars and Sun to decide which way to go
4. d) Making dead people decide which way to go

 

3. Using the Sun, Moon, and stars to navigate is called?

 

1. a) Celestial movement b) Global Positioning System
2. c) Celestial Navigation d) none of the above

 

4. Explain, in your own words, how you think GPS (Global Positioning Systems) work.

 

→Gps Works on finding your direction through the roads

 

5. True or False: Submarines use high frequency radiation to navigate underwater.

 

1. a) True b) False

 

6. What are the people outside of an aircraft who help navigate planes called?

 

1. a) Pilots b) Navigators
2. c) Air Traffic Controllers d) Playstation Controllers

 

WORD	DEFINITION	YOUR OWN SENTENCE
celestial	Suggesting heaven or divinity	Late at night sunlight gave the room a celestial glow.
global	Involving the entire world.	On People phones they get a global warning.
compass	Working without a plan in the middle of the sea is sailing without a compass.	Compass is used for directions.

 

8. Explain: Birds were released by navigators from ships to find land, but how else, do you think, navigators could use wild birds to find land?

 

→ Navigators could used wild birds to find food to survival in the wild life.