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Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: December 31st, 2016, 9:40 am
by NeilMehta
Fanglin wrote: 2 complete years of Road Scholar (including 2 National tourneys), legit almost every RS test on the world wide web, and I've never come across a question of the sort:)

(in other words: I don't know)
Even numbered interstates always run E-W and odd numbered ones always run N-S
at states last year i mixed them up and ohhhh gosh mistakes were made

Heres a different one I guess:
What's an azimuth? Why is it so important?

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: February 7th, 2017, 8:37 pm
by snorrio
What is a bus terminus?

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: February 7th, 2017, 8:52 pm
by Fanglin
snorrio wrote:What is a bus terminus?
It's like a train station or airport for busses. Usually coach busses, but it can vary.

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: February 7th, 2017, 8:55 pm
by Fanglin
Image What kind of lake is Horseshoe Lake and how is it formed?

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: February 10th, 2017, 12:58 am
by NeilMehta
Fanglin wrote:Image What kind of lake is Horseshoe Lake and how is it formed?
It's an oxbow lake. It forms when contestant erosion and deposition forms a shorter path in a meandering stream (woo earth science!)

What does UTM stand for and what does it mean?

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: February 13th, 2017, 2:11 pm
by Fanglin
NeilMehta wrote:
Fanglin wrote:Image What kind of lake is Horseshoe Lake and how is it formed?
It's an oxbow lake. It forms when contestant erosion and deposition forms a shorter path in a meandering stream (woo earth science!)

What does UTM stand for and what does it mean?
UTM stands for Universal Transverse Mercator, which is a land measurement system based of meters, and large network of meridians. It's those small numbers on the side of the topos with the prefex number.

What measurement differences are there between Stream Gradient and Slope Gradient?

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: March 19th, 2017, 9:39 pm
by freed2003
[hide]Stream gradient is measured every 1000 feet while slope gradient is measured every 100[/hide]

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: March 22nd, 2017, 6:01 am
by NeilMehta
New question:
What does UPS stand for?

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: March 22nd, 2017, 8:37 pm
by Fanglin
United Parcel service! "synchronizing the world of commerce"
If that's not it, then IDK lol

Re: Road Scholar B

Posted: March 27th, 2017, 3:10 pm
by NeilMehta
Fanglin wrote:United Parcel service! "synchronizing the world of commerce"
If that's not it, then IDK lol
I was really looking for Universal Polar Stereographic coordinates
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal ... ate_system)