421. What are the chief islands of Turkey in Asia? 422. Of what description is the sea to the north of Russia? 423. In what productions does Italy excel? 424. What is the chief article furnished by Norway? 425. What is the chief produce of Cornwall? 426. How do the people of the Marquesas disfigure their persons? 427. What is the nature of the winds called Solanos? 428. What commodities does Russia export? 429. How many English miles is it round the globe? 430. What number of inhabitants are supposed to be on the globe? QUESTIONS ON THE NATURE AND USE OF THE GLOBES. 1. What is a globe? 2. What is an artificial globe? 4. What is a celestial globe? 5. What is the true figure of the earth? 7. What is the polar diameter ? 8. What is the proportion of the two diameters? 9. What sciences are the artificial globes de signed to illustrate? 10. What is the axis of the earth? 11. What does the rotation of the earth on its axis produce with regard to the heavens? 12. What are the poles? 13. What is the brazen meridian? 14. How is it divided? 15. What is a great circle? 16. What is a small circle? 17. Into how many degrees is every circle (whether great or small) supposed to be divided? 18. How is a degree subdivided? 19. By what marks are degrees and the minor divisions distinguished? 20. What is a hemisphere? 21. What is the equator? 22. Into what does it divide the globe ? 23. What is it called, in reference to the heavens? 24. What is a meridian? 25. What number of meridians are commonly delineated on the globe, and how many degrees of the equator are comprehended between any two of them? 26. What is the first meridian? 27. What is the ecliptic? 28. What angle does it make with the equinoctial? 29. How is it divided? 30. What are the names of the twelve signs? 31. Make the characters by which they are denoted. 32. What is the zodiac? 33. What are the tropics? 34. What are the polar circles? 35. By what particular name is each distinguished ? 36. Into how many zones is the surface of the terrestrial globe divided, and what are their names? 37. What is the breadth of the torrid zone? 38. What is the north temperate zone bounded by? 39. How is the south temperate zone bounded? 40. What is the breadth of each? 41. What circle comprehends the north torrid zone, and what the south? 42. What is the zenith? 43. What is the nadir? 44. What is the horizon? 45. What is the sensible horizon? 46. What is the rational horizon? 47. How is the rational horizon represented? 48. Describe the circles, and their divisions,. that are commonly drawn on the wooden horizon? 49. What is the latitude of a place? 50. What is the longitude of a place? 51. What is the latitude of a celestial body? 12236 Peak of Teneriffe Highest Peak of Atlas chain, Africa ................................................. 11980 James Peak, highest of Rocky Mountains 11700 Peak of Lomnitz, highest summit of Carpathians Highest of the Dofrines, Norway...... Hospice of Great St. Bernard, the highest inhabited ground in Europe Highest Peak of Blue Mountains, Jamaica Mount Washington, highest of the Alleghanies Vesuvius, Italy 10963 9520 9356 .......................... 9075 8640 8500 8040 7500 ........... 6500 6500 4960 4900 3900 |