Logan's vocabulary activities week 4

Year 7/8: I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.

Name of Text: Captain Cook - Charting Our Islands

Defintions

Surveying: to measure the shape, area, and elevation of with special instruments. Latitude: the distance between the equator and a point north or south on the earth's surface. This distance is measured in degrees. Longitude: distance on the earth's surface east or west of an imaginary line on the globe that goes from the north pole to the south pole and passes through Greenwich, England. Circumnavigation: to go entirely around Continent: one of the earth's seven major areas of land. The continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

Example/Non Example	When do people need to survey land?	When there is a new country
	What is Christchurch’s latitude?	43.5321° S, 172.6362° E
	Does Wellington have the same longitude as Christchurch? Why or why not?	no because they are in different places
	Can you take short cuts if you are circumnavigating something? Why or why not?	no because you are going around something
	Brazil is on the continent of South America - true or false? Why?	true

Word Associations	Countries that are on the equator are usually very warm and wet places to live	Latitude
	The council wants to build a new road	Surveying
	New Zealand is not one	Continent
	Ferdinand Magellan did this first	Circumnavigation
	Greenwich, England is at 0 degrees	Longitude

Word Relationships How might each pair of words be connected?	Latitude/Longitude	latitude is cold and longitude is warm
	Latitude/Circumnavigation	latitude is cold and Circumnavigation is going around something

Extended Writing	Think of a time when you had to circumnavigate something or survey something. Write a paragraph about the experience.
	surveying is fun because you can get people's opinions on stuff and find out what the people said. Get info a what people would like to have or do.