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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Cook makes a chart

Today we are learning to find answers to the question to the text.

1.one of the thing captain cook does is a running survey.
and also he used longitude and latitude to run the running survey also longitude and latitude are 
imaginary lines that form a grid around our planet.cook also needed latitude and longitude to chart the islands's of new Zealand.

2.latitude and longitude is a thing on the map that shows you were to go and where it is safe to drop the anchor to stop the boat from moving so cook can look at the beach with his 

3.longitude runs vertically from the top of the earth to the bottom of the earth and they divide the world in to segments like an orange meeting the north and the south pole longitude is also based on the earth's rotation through 360 degrees,which happens once every twenty-four hours.  

4.latitude they also have a starting at Greenwich London this is called meridian and also the latitude go's around the earth to the other side 

5.cook also need both latitude and longitude to chart the island of new Zealand and also he needed to mark the landmarks cook would plot these on his chart also these were important for him to do a running survey. 

Source:School journal level  4 May 2016 captain cook charting our island by Melanie Lovell-Smith
What i enjoyed was  learning about what captain cook was doing to our islands before he died.

What my next steps are is to make sure i add the tittle of the story so of people that want to read it they can type it up and read it.

You should go and read the story cause it is good?














1 comment:

  1. Awesome blog post Mark. You've explained some tricky words really well. I also like how you've shared your next steps. Maybe next time you could add some labels to your blog post.

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