How to:
Step 1: Place the stick or branch into the ground at a level spot where it will cast a distinctive shadow. Mark the shadow's tip with a stone, twig, or other means. This first shadow mark is always west--everywhere on earth.
Step 2: Wait 10 to 15 minutes until the shadow tip moves a few centimetres. Mark the shadow tip's new position in the same way as the first.
Step 3: Draw a straight line through the two marks to obtain an approximate east-west line.
Step 4: Stand with the first mark (west) to your left and the second mark to your right--you are now facing north. This fact is true everywhere on earth. Section 3: Watch Navigation
You can also determine direction using a common or analogue watch (one that has hands). The direction will be accurate if you are using true local time, without any changes for daylight savings time.
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You can quickly draw a watch on a circle of paper or in the dirt with the correct time on it and use it to determine your direction at that time.
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How to:
Step 1: Place In the northern hemisphere, hold the watch horizontally and point the hour hand at the sun. Bisect the angle between the hour hand and the 12 o'clock mark to get the north-south line. If there is any doubt as to which end of the line is north,
Step 2: The sun is in the east before noon and in the west after noon.
Step 3: If your watch is set on daylight savings time, use the midway point between the hour hand and 1 o'clock to determine the north-south line. Step 4: In the southern hemisphere, point the watch's 12 o'clock mark toward the sun and a midpoint halfway between 12 and the hour hand will give you the north-south line
Remember
• That the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
• The further you are from the equator, the more accurate this method will be.
Section 4: Moon
« On your tree, use a compass to find out which side of the tree is
Set up the X axis as the Date, and the Y axis as the water height/moon visibility.
In the chart below, provide the missing information -- either the name of each region illustrated, or the function of each region -- and then provide the letter for the location of each region based on the diagram below. Each correct answer will earn for the team two points. (For clarity, the colors of the letters assigned to each region matches the colors of the region displayed in the diagram, so when in doubt, follow the color.) Finally, answer the four questions below the chart. The point value for each of the four questions is given along with the question.
To do this properly, make sure you have drawn a mirror image of the design onto your tracing paper. Next, apply a light coating of Speed Stick to the skin. To avoid potential contamination, it is best to do this with a tongue depressor rather than by placing the product directly to the skin. Now, press the tracing paper, image side down, against the skin. It will stick slightly due to the deodorant. Rub the entire surface of the paper firmly, and when you gently pull it from the skin, you will see that the design is left behind and is facing the right direction.
what time it is by seeing if the moon is down, and then the candles
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Deutscher himself speaks of two ways most people use to describe directions. The two terms are referred as “egocentric” and “geographic” directions. Egocentric directions require verbal instructions that include some relative directions such as left, right, up, down, forwards, and backwards (450). On the other hand, geographic directions include descriptions such as, south, north, west, and east. Personally it is way easier for me and society to think of our relative directions to be much easier to describe in contrasts to having a constant compass in our minds. Using the terms left and right are the usual daily descriptions I use to almost everything. I find it almost impossible to understand and adapt to saying “on your southwest”, putting much thought and focus on the phrase I come to realize it is lower or bottom left. It is much easier to use the egocentric coordinates because it is much uncomplicated to adapt to since they are more visual (450). Deutscher speaks about an Australian language named, Guugu Yimithirr, that does not use the effortless description of directions using egocentric but rather uses cardinal directions. Guugu Yimithirr speakers use the cardinal directions for everything, whether it is moving from one side to the other, west to east, or simply just forgetting something on the table, “I left it on the southern edge of the western table.” (451) I wouldn’t
I can feel it throbbing around my wrist. Each tick drags me one second further in the countdown, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it, reverse it, or slow it down. A bead of sweat trickles down my temple. Why hasn’t it arrived yet?
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