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Using a marking pen, draw the points on a basketball or a beachball that represent the North Pole, the South Pole, San Francisco, and Cairo.

Locate Greenwich, England and draw a line from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich. To represent each time zone, draw more lines from the North Pole to the South Pole at intervals of 15°, until you reach Greenwich again.

Count the number of time zones between San Francisco and Cairo.

 

Look in a telephone directory for a chart of time zones. Use the chart to determine what the current time is in each time zone of the United States.

   
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