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Vector Voyage Worksheet 1: North Europe America

This document is a student worksheet for a vector voyage activity. It contains instructions for the student to plot a ship's course from Spain to North America over multiple months, drawing vectors to account for the ship's movement and variable wind directions each month. The student is asked where they would make landfall in North America and how many months it would take to get there under the different scenarios of only accounting for the ship's movement and then also factoring in changing wind vectors each month.

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Vector Voyage Worksheet 1: North Europe America

This document is a student worksheet for a vector voyage activity. It contains instructions for the student to plot a ship's course from Spain to North America over multiple months, drawing vectors to account for the ship's movement and variable wind directions each month. The student is asked where they would make landfall in North America and how many months it would take to get there under the different scenarios of only accounting for the ship's movement and then also factoring in changing wind vectors each month.

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Jecel Lazarra
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Name: _Lazarra, Jecel B.

_______ Date _08/10/20

Vector Voyage Worksheet 1


North Canada N
Englan
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America NW NE Europe
W E
SW SE
S Portugal

United Spain
Start!
States

Africa

Cuba Atlantic Ocean

Vector Voyage Instructions


Part 1: Your ship can sail 10 squares/month. Starting from Spain and travelling west (or bearing 270), draw one vector for each month of travel using your
red pencil. In what country will you make landfall? United state__ How many months will it take to reach land (how many 10-square vectors is
it)? 3 months______

Part 2: Unfortunately, the wind does not always blow the way you want! To determine how the wind effects our travel, let's include the wind vector.
First, draw your ship vector, just like in part 1, using your red pencil. Now at the end of that vector, add the wind vector using your blue pencil. Now draw
the resulting vector (just adding the two vectors) with your blue pencil. That's where you are when the first month ends. Now do the same for the next
month and the month after that until you reach land. Remember that the wind changes, so each month you will have to add a different wind vector. The
list of different winds for each month is on the following line.

Month 1: 2 squares south Month 2: 4 diagonal squares southeast Month 3: 2 squares west Month 4: No wind
Where will you make landfall now? United state_ How many months to reach land (only count the solid 10-square vectors!)?_4 months__

Navigation: Lesson 2, Vector Voyage Activity - Worksheet 1

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