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Are maps used by sailors to navigate at sea are properly called charts?
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What is the field of study that creates maps and charts of Earth?
The field of study that produces maps and charts of the Earth is called cartography.
What is ocean map?
Maps of the oceans, seas etc are called charts.
The field of study that creates maps and charts of Earth's surface landforms and physical features is called?
geography
What is chart called?
There are many differant kinds of charts in the world such as:line graphbar graphpie chartetc. etc.
What map would a sailor use?
The Mercator projection is the standard for nautical navigation.
Can you Navigate the Tennessee River to Gulf of Mexico?
Yes you can! Look into the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway charts.
What help ships navigate?
The captain and his officers, GPS, radar, charts, buoys, and sonar are all used.
Why are these charts called pie charts and pizza charts or cake charts?
Because they are circular and have sections that are like slices.
Where can one find statistics of airplane accidents?
There is a website called "PlaneCrashInfo" which contains statistics of airplane accidents dating back to 1960. The statistics are presented through charts and graphs which are very easy to understand and navigate through.
The practice of plotting a course at sea is called .?
Without using charts or instruments, it is called "dead reckoning".With charts or instruments, even hand held, it is called navigation.
Did Christopher Columbus have charts he used to navigate to the North American area?
Columbus had no charts of North America, he had charts of India and China as that was where he expected to be. He just thought all he needed to do was sail west. There would be nothing in the way. However when he arrived none of the charts matched, so he guessed he was in unknown islands near India because the natives had brownish/red complexion not yellow complexion.
What are control charts used for?
Control charts (also commonly called process-behaviour charts or Shewhart charts) are charts which are used to find out if a business or manufacturing process is in a state of statistical control. They were invented by Walter A. Shewhart in 1920.
What are sea captains maps called?
Charts
Are circle graphs called pie charts?
no because it is called a cake
Why aren't pie charts called pizza charts?
because Greeks didn't have dominoes or pizza hut when they invented the term
What is the field of study that creates maps and charts of Earth?
The field of study that produces maps and charts of the Earth is called cartography.
Why were Portuguese sailors so scared of sailing too far?
They were afraid of falling off the edge of the world. [In reality, they were afraid of getting lost by sailing beyond their star charts.]
