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Use Bearings To Describe A Journey

The document discusses using bearings to describe journeys and provides examples of how to calculate and draw bearings. It includes an example of a ship journey from northeast Australia to southeast Tasmania using multiple bearings of 060, 1600, and 2300. It also mentions that shopping can make you dizzy due to all the different angles and bearing changes between stores.

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Use Bearings To Describe A Journey

The document discusses using bearings to describe journeys and provides examples of how to calculate and draw bearings. It includes an example of a ship journey from northeast Australia to southeast Tasmania using multiple bearings of 060, 1600, and 2300. It also mentions that shopping can make you dizzy due to all the different angles and bearing changes between stores.

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Bearings

1-Dec-13

North

Use bearings to describe a journey


Fly on a bearing of 2250

In real life ships and planes use bearings

Level 6/7 (D/C) grade

Sail on a bearing of 1350

How to draw the bearing 4 km at

038o

North

Scale 1 cm to 1 km
North is at the top of your page Draw a line that points to the north Put on your protractor Mark a point at 380 Take off the protractor Join up to your point Make the line 4 cm long A bearing of 4 km at 0380

Scale 1 cm = 1 km

Bearings can be used to describe journeys. Here is an example

A ship needs to go from the north east tip of the Northern territories to the south east point of Tasmania. To do this it sails on these bearings:
700 km at 060 2000 km at 1600
0600 1600

800 km at 2300

Draw an island and describe a journey around its coast

2300

Why shopping makes you dizzy!


Draw a Why Shopping Makes You Dizzy map

Have you ever arrived home from a shopping spree and felt like you had been in a spin drier? Just think of all the angles that you have turned through on your bearing journeys to the different shops!

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