Guidance and Navigation MCQ

1. How is the ambient atmosphere forced into the hydraulic system?

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Correct Answer: During connection of quick-release coupling halves

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2. What is Polaris the star of?

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Correct Answer: The Northern Hemisphere

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3. What is the name of the star that is the pole star for the Northern Hemisphere?

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Correct Answer: Polaris

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4. What is a navigator's LOP?

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Correct Answer: Plotting Sheet

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5. What type of book does the Pilot provide?

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Correct Answer: A guide book

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6. What is the Pilot book called?

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Correct Answer: A guide book giving details of coastlines and harbours

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7. A pilot book is what?

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Correct Answer: A guide book giving details of coastlines and harbours and sailing directions

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8. What could be considered a passage plan?

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Correct Answer: A written plan of a proposed voyage

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9. A written plan of a proposed voyage is known as what?

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Correct Answer: Passage plan

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10. What is parallax?

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Correct Answer: The apparent differences in the positions of objects viewed along different lines of sight

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11. What is the apparent differences in the positions of objects viewed along different lines of sight?

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Correct Answer: Parallax

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12. What part of the ship is responsible for keeping the marine charts up to date?

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Correct Answer: Notices to Mariners

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13. What is the purpose of the Notice to Mariners?

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Correct Answer: Updates and corrections to chart data

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14. In what direction does the magnetic field of Earth point?

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Correct Answer: North

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15. What two celestial bodies affect the Neaps tide?

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Correct Answer: Sun and moon

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16. What is the general meaning of the word Navigation?

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Correct Answer: The process of plotting and directing the course of a vessel

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17. What is the process of plotting and directing the course of a vessel called?

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Correct Answer: Navigation

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18. What is a nautical mile?

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Correct Answer: A unit of distance that is equal to 1/60 of a degree

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19. Along what line of longitude at the latitude of the distance to be measured is a nautical mile equal to 1/60 of a degree?

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Correct Answer: A line

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20. What is a nautical mile equal to in terms of a degree?

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Correct Answer: 1/60

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21. Who devised the Mercator projection?

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Correct Answer: Geradus Mercato

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22. What year did Mercator project his globe onto a flat map?

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Correct Answer: 1569

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23. What does "making" mean in a figurative sense?

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Correct Answer: Progress

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24. What is used to denote progress?

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Correct Answer: Making

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25. In what direction does the Earth's magnetic field point?

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Correct Answer: Northerly

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26. What does the term Magnetic north refer to?

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Correct Answer: The northerly position of the earths magnetic field

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27. What is the northerly position of the earths magnetic field?

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Correct Answer: Magnetic north

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28. When are magnetic bearings used?

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Correct Answer: Magnetic bearing; a baring taken from a magnetic compass

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29. What is a magnetic bearing?

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Correct Answer: A baring

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30. What does the Magnetic Compass align with?

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Correct Answer: The earths magnetic field

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31. What is the name of the device that aligns with the earths magnetic field?

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Correct Answer: Magnetic Compass

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32. What is it difficult to guess about the center when taking a sun or moon sight?

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Correct Answer: Where the center is

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33. What is the term for aligning the edge of an object to the horizon?

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Correct Answer: Lower Limb

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34. What do range lights do?

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Correct Answer: Provide a transit along a narrow channel

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35. What are the terms used for lights placed to provide a transit along a narrow channel?

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Correct Answer: Leading Lights

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36. What is a measure of angular distance from the equator on the Earth's surface?

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Correct Answer: Latitude

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37. What are lateral marks used to show?

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Correct Answer: Safe water channel

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38. What does indicating the edge of a safe water channel mean?

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Correct Answer: Buoyage

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39. What is the term given to the approach to or sighting of land after an ocean passage?

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Correct Answer: Landfall

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40. What is the abbreviation for knots?

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Correct Answer: Kts.

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41. What is a Knot equal to?

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Correct Answer: Nautical miles per hour

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42. What is another name for jetsam?

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Correct Answer: Objects that have been thrown overboard

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43. What are the objects that were originally stuff jettisoned by a ship?

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Correct Answer: Jetsam

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44. What type of mark signify a hazard?

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Correct Answer: Buoyage marks

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45. What does a buoyage mark indicate?

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Correct Answer: A hazard

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46. In what latitude range does the ITCZ lie?

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Correct Answer: 5⁰ north and south of the equator

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47. What is the name of the area of still air between 5 and north and south of the equator?

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Correct Answer: ITCZ

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48. What are tables that estimate the value between tabulated results?

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Correct Answer: Almanac tables

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49. What are interpolation tables used for?

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Correct Answer: Almanac tables to estimate value between the tabulated results

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50. What are the International marine signal flags?

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Correct Answer: A system of flag shapes and designes used to communicate messages at sea

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51. What do marine signal flags communicate?

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Correct Answer: Messages at sea

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52. What does the imaginary line in the Pacific Ocean vary from?

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Correct Answer: 180⁰ meridian

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53. Along with the 180 degree meridian, what is another used to avoid populated land areas?

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Correct Answer: International Date Line

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54. What is an example of an Intercept?

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Correct Answer: LOPs cross

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55. What is a term for a location where two lines cross?

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Correct Answer: Intercept

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56. What is at the apex of a sextant frame?

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Correct Answer: Mirror

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57. What are sextant frame's mirror at the apex of?

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Correct Answer: Index mirror

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58. What is the international recognition of the AIALA system?

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Correct Answer: Internationally recognised systems of buoyage

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59. What is the international system of buoys?

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Correct Answer: LA Systems

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60. What type of glass is the Horizon Mirror?

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Correct Answer: Half clear glass half mirror

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61. What can be used to view the horizon at the same time as a reflection of whatever is showing in the index mirror?

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Correct Answer: Horizon Glass

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62. What is a horizon?

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Correct Answer: The apparent line

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63. What is the apparent line for an observer where the earth's surface and the sky meet?

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Correct Answer: Horizon

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64. What does the height of tide indicate above chart datum?

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Correct Answer: Depth of water

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65. What does the height of an eye above sea level serve as a correction for?

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Correct Answer: Site reduction

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66. What is the opposite to the heading of a vessel?

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Correct Answer: The course made good

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67. What is the direction a vessel is pointing?

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Correct Answer: Heading

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68. What does a compass act as an assistant for?

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Correct Answer: A small portable compass

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69. When using a compass to navigate, what is the name of the device that you hold?

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Correct Answer: Hand held, Compass

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70. What handheld tool is used to find the magnetic direction?

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Correct Answer: Compass

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71. What longitude line passes through the Royal Observatory in the UK?

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Correct Answer: Greenwich Meridian

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72. Where is the Royal Observatory located?

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Correct Answer: Greenwich

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73. A system that uses information broadcast from orbiting what?

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Correct Answer: Satellites

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74. What are the latitide and longitude of a receiving device calculated by GPS?

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Correct Answer: Longitude and latitude

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75. What is the mean of the times of noon at the Greenwich Meridian?

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Correct Answer: GMT, Greenwich Mean Time

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76. The GHA is a measurement of a position, in what?

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Correct Answer: Degrees

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77. GHA is an abbreviation for what?

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Correct Answer: Greenwich Hour Angle

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78. What is the point on the earth's surface directly beneath the zenith?

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Correct Answer: Geographical Position or GP

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79. What type of information can be conveyed by the term forecasting terms?

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Correct Answer: Specific

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80. What are some examples of weather terms used to convey specific, concise, information on weather conditions?

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Correct Answer: Forecasting Terms

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81. Where does Flotsam come from?

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Correct Answer: A shipwreck

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82. What is Flotsam?

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Correct Answer: The floating debris resulting from a shipwreck

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83. What is an example fix used to verify position?

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Correct Answer: Bearings

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84. What is the name of the first point of Aries?

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Correct Answer: A point on the celestial sphere

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85. What is the name of the point on the celestial sphere which is used as a reference point?

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Correct Answer: First Point of Aries

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86. A fathom is about how many feet long?

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Correct Answer: 6

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87. What is one fathom equal to in modern measurement?

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Correct Answer: 6 feet or 1.8 meters

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88. What term describes the DR position that has been adjusted to allow for Set and Drift?

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Correct Answer: Estimated Position

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89. What are ephemerals?

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Correct Answer: A published collection of tables giving coordinates for astronomical bodies for specific times

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90. What is the name given to a published collection of tables giving coordinates for astronomical bodies for specific times?

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Correct Answer: Ephemerals

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91. The DR is called what in the Northern Hemisphere?

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Correct Answer: Estimated Position

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92. What is the PP; Estimated Position, the DR plus the effects of current?

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Correct Answer: EP

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93. Electronic charts are either called what or what?

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Correct Answer: Vector charts

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94. What are the two different chart types?

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Correct Answer: Vector charts and Raster marine charts

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95. What is a method of standardizing the keeping of logs digitally?

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Correct Answer: Electronic logs or E log books

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96. What are electronic logs used for?

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Correct Answer: Standardising the keeping of logs digitally

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97. What are the doldrums?

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Correct Answer: The Inter-tropical Convergence Zone

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98. The Doldrums is an area of very still air, between what two numbers are referenced in the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone?

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Correct Answer: 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south

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99. The Doldrums is located in which belt of very still air?

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Correct Answer: Inter-tropical Convergence Zone

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100. For what correction should an altitudes of an eye be compensated?

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Correct Answer: Dip

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101. Correction to be applied to what?

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Correct Answer: Sextant attitudes

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102. What causes the compass errors?

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Correct Answer: Metallic o magnetic objects on board the vessel

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103. What caused the compass errors on board the vessel?

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Correct Answer: Metallic o magnetic objects

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104. What is the measurement of Declination?

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Correct Answer: The angular distance to a point on the celestial sphere

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105. What is the angular distance to a point on the celestial sphere measured north and south from the celestial equator along the hour circle?

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Correct Answer: Declination

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106. What term best describes determining a position by plotting courses and speeds from a known position?

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Correct Answer: Reckoning

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107. What is the name of the course that tells you which way to go?

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Correct Answer: Compass Course

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108. The ship to steer has been corrected for what?

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Correct Answer: Current, variation, and deviation

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109. What are the main purposes of Cartography?

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Correct Answer: The study and the construction of maps

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110. What do maps help to study and to construct?

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Correct Answer: Cartography

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111. What are the four main points of the compass?

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Correct Answer: North, East, South and West

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112. How many main points of the compass are there?

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Correct Answer: Four

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113. What type of marks indicate the direction of safe water?

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Correct Answer: Cardinal Marks

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114. What are cardinal marks indicating the direction of safe water?

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Correct Answer: Buoyage marks

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115. What does a cape project out into?

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Correct Answer: A large body of water

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116. What is a cape?

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Correct Answer: A piece of land that that projects out into a large body of water

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117. What type of scale does the Beaufort Scale represent?

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Correct Answer: Numerical

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118. What numerical method of describing wind strength are we talking about?

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Correct Answer: Beaufort Scale

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119. What does the term bearing mean?

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Correct Answer: The compass reading taken of a object

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120. What is a beacon used for?

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Correct Answer: An unlit navigation mark

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121. What is the Barometric Gradient?

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Correct Answer: The rate at which atmospheric pressure rises of falls

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122. What is the rate of atmospheric pressure rise or fall?

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Correct Answer: Barometric Gradient

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123. What is an example of a barometer?

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Correct Answer: An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure

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124. What is the name of an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure?

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Correct Answer: Barometer

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125. What is the wind felt on board of a ship?

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Correct Answer: Apparent wind

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126. What would modify an actual wind?

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Correct Answer: The wind created by the vessels movement

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127. What will most likely be modified by the wind created by the vessels movement?

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Correct Answer: The wind as felt on board

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128. Anabatic winds are caused by what?

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Correct Answer: Warm air rising up a slope

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129. What is the measure of altitude?

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Correct Answer: The angular distance of a celestial body above the viewers horizon

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130. What is the distance that a celestial body is above the viewers horizon?

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Correct Answer: Altitude

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131. What does an almanac include?

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Correct Answer: Tide Tables astronomical ephemerals etc

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132. What is an actual depth?

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Correct Answer: The true depth of water

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133. What is the true depth of the water as opposed to a predicted depth?

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Correct Answer: Actual depth

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