MAP SKILLS BOOT CAMP Name: Date:
LESSON 9
Time Zones
The world has been using time zones since the late 19th century. Back then, To solve the problem, officials created a worldwide system of 24 standard time
railroads were starting to make long-distance travel easier, but differing local zones in 1884—one for each hour of the day. They designated the prime meridian
times led to confusion for passengers and operators. (0° longitude) as the starting point for the zones. (continued on next page)
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WORLD TIME ZONES
165° W 150° W 135° W 120° W 105° W 90° W 75° W 60° W 45° W 30° W 15° W 0° 15° E 30° E 45° E 60° E 75° E 90° E 105° E 120° E 135° E 150° E 165° E 180°
1 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m. 6 a.m. 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. NOON 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m. MIDNIGHT
GREENLAND
PRIME MERIDIAN
(DENMARK)
11 a.m.
9 a.m.
ALASKA
RUSSIA 3 a.m.
NORTH
UNITED Moscow
3 a.m. AMERICA NEWFOUNDLAND KINGDOM GERMANY ALEUTIAN IS.
(CANADA) NORTH (U.S.)
Anchorage
CANADA Berlin KOREA
Toronto London 8:30 p.m.
PACIFIC 8:30 a.m. Paris EUROPE ASIA
OCEAN FRANCE
Denver Chicago
Urumqi
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE
Beijing JAPAN
New York City Tokyo
UNITED STATES Tripoli IRAQ IRAN
Los Cairo CHINA
Angeles 3:30 p.m. 8 p.m.
ATLANTIC
Honolulu
OCEAN LIBYA
EGYPT Baghdad
MEXICO PUERTO
INDIA
5:30 p.m. Hong
RICO
HAWAII (U.S.) Kong
AFGHANISTAN
Mexico 4:30 p.m. MYANMAR
City AFRICA 6:30 p.m. PACIFIC
OCEAN
SOUTH
AMERICA
PERU INDIAN
OCEAN SAMOA
Lima BRAZIL
AUSTRALIA
Rio de Janeiro
SOUTH 9:30 p.m.
AFRICA Sydney NEW
MONDAY
SUNDAY
Buenos Cape Town ZEALAND
Standard time zones Aires
Nonstandard time zones
ARGENTINA WEST EAST 12 p.m.
City
The term UTC is a compromise between the English
Note: Not all cities or countries are labeled on map. To get the local time of cities To get the local time of cities and French abbreviations: Coordinated Universal Time (CUT)
west of London, subtract east of London, add and temps universel coordonné (TUC).
one hour for each time zone. one hour for each time zone.
-11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 UTC +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 -12
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MAP SKILLS BOOT CAMP Name: Date:
LESSON 9
Time Zones
That imaginary line runs through Greenwich—a part international date line (180° longitude).
of London, England. The time at the prime meridian is The map below shows U.S. time zones. Of the
known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). world’s 24 standard time zones, the U.S. spans six. The
The map on p. 1 shows the world’s 24 standard time boundaries don’t always follow straight longitude lines,
zones. The top bar displays the time in each zone when however. Some zigzag so communities that are close to
it is noon in London. The bottom bar shows how many each other can be in the same time zone, for example,
hours to add or subtract from UTC to calculate the or to allow for the presence of a mountain range or
time for that zone. The day changes when you cross the other natural division.
U.S. TIME ZONES
ALASKA PACIFIC MOUNTAIN CENTRAL EASTERN
Seattle
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AK WA NH
MT ND Minneapolis MI VT ME
OR MA
Anchorage ID
MN WI NY
Boston
SD
WY RI
IA PA CT
NJ
NV
NE Chicago OH
UT DE
CA IL IN
Denver WV
VA MD
Los CO KS KY
MO
Angeles NC
HAWAII-ALEUTIAN AZ TN
NM OK AR
SC
Washington,
Phoenix D.C.
Atlanta
MS
TX AL GA
Honolulu
HI LA
Austin
Alaska and Hawaii are not drawn FL
to scale or placed in their proper
geographic positions.
Miami
National capital State capital City Time zone border
NOTE: Both maps reflect standard time, not daylight saving time (DST). In the U.S., Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe DST.
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MAP SKILLS BOOT CAMP Name: Date:
LESSON 9
Time Zones
Use Your Skills
Use the maps on p. 1 and p. 2 to answer the questions.
1. When it is noon in London in the United Kingdom, 7. If you were to fly from Austin, Texas, to Chicago,
what time is it in New York City in the U.S.? Illinois, then on to Minneapolis, Minnesota, how
7 am
_______________________________________________________ many times would you have to adjust your watch?
________________________________________________________
0
2. One of the world’s biggest countries has only one
China
time zone. Which country is it? _____________________ 8. If you turn your watch from 3:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
after a flight, in which direction did you travel?
3. When it is noon in Boston, Massachusetts, what East
________________________________________________________
10 am
time is it in Denver, Colorado? ______________________
9. If the president of the U.S. is making an important
4. Most of Kansas is in which time zone? speech at 6 p.m. in Washington, D.C., what time
________________________________________________________
Central would people in Anchorage, Alaska, tune in to
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watch it live? _________________________________________
2 pm
5. Mexico City is in the same time zone as which
Chicago
labeled city in the U.S.? _____________________________ 10. Your friend lives in Tokyo, Japan. She wants you
to call her on Wednesday at 8 a.m. Tokyo time.
6. The international date line runs mainly along You live in Chicago. What day and time will it be
which meridian (line of longitude)? in Chicago when you call your friend?
180
_______________________________________________________ 5 pm (the previous day)
_______________________________________________________
Consider This
What kinds of problems might arise if the entire world were to go by the same time—for example, if it were
noon everywhere at once?
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