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Earth Geometry
This excel file shows the Greenwich Meridian, lines of longitude and parallels of latitude. It treats the Earth as a sphere. On the interactive sheets the position of two points on the globe can be altered.
There is a set of seven questions with answers where the student needs to calculate the shortest distance between two points but only by moving along lines of longitude or latitude. The ability to calculate the length of an arc is needed and success at some of these questions requires the use of trigonometry.
There is a searchable database of many cities which allows students to set their own questions.
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This program was designed by be viewed on a screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768. Users may have to adjust the resolution of their screen for the pages to display as was originally intended. The program uses macros which need to be enabled on users’ machine.
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