New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . What landFrom what shore ofWhat shore did weCan you ex2:)lain this ? 11 Our Journey Teaches the Shape of the Earth. Slick a piu into a large, round apple, as in the picture be-low. AVith a pencil scratch a line around the apple, movingthe pencil always in the same direction. AVhat point on theapple do you finally reach? In your journey constantly to theeast from your home, what point do you finally reach ? The continent of America, on which we live,Uie Eastern Continent, and the oceans on whichwe have traveled, form parts ofthe s
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . What landFrom what shore ofWhat shore did weCan you ex2:)lain this ? 11 Our Journey Teaches the Shape of the Earth. Slick a piu into a large, round apple, as in the picture be-low. AVith a pencil scratch a line around the apple, movingthe pencil always in the same direction. AVhat point on theapple do you finally reach? In your journey constantly to theeast from your home, what point do you finally reach ? The continent of America, on which we live,Uie Eastern Continent, and the oceans on whichwe have traveled, form parts ofthe surface of a great ball,which we call the earth. Inour long journey eastward, oversea and over land, we traveledaround this ball until we cameagain to the land from which^ WC started. Pretend that your apple isthe round earth and that thepin in it is the place whereyou live. Scratch severaljourneys round the apple from yotu- home, eachin a different direction. What place do you. always reach ? If you shouldjourney on the earth in anydirection from your home,and continue without tm-n-ing to the right or to theleft, what place would youfinally reach ? Why ? The earth seems to us flatinstead of round, because itis so large, and we are soclose to it, that we can seebut a small j)art of it. From a great height inthe sky we might see thatthe earth is round, and itwould look something likeone of the pictures picture shows onehalf of the earth, while the picture beside itshows the other half. A perfectly roundbody is called a S2:)here. Hemisphere means• half a sphere, and as the earth is nearly asphere, a map or picture of half the earth iscalled a map or picture of a hemisphere. Look at the two pictures below. You seethat the continent of America stretches acrossone side of the round earth. This half of theearth is called the Western Hemisphere. TheEastern and the Australian contuients are ontlie opposite side of the earth. That half ofthe earth is call
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