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REGIONAL

DA VINCI DECATHLON 2018 CELEBRATING THE ACADEMIC GIFTS OF STUDENTS

IN YEARS 7 & 8

CARTOGRAPHY ANSWERS

TEAM NUMBER _____________

1 2 3 4 5 Total Rank

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QUESTION ONE COLLECTIVE MEMORY THE TASK 10 MARKS Collective memory is any past recollection shared by two or more individuals of a group. If we extrapolate this, history itself is somewhat of a collective memory, passed down the generations of humanity through teaching, record-keeping and story-telling. This task examines the collective memory of Australia.

You will be provided with a series of maps and corresponding dates. Your task is to use this information to identify the important milestones in Australia’s collective memory that are represented.

MEMORY ONE Date: 1967

Answer: Disappearance of Harold Holt

MEMORY TWO Date: 2000

Answer: Sydney Olympic Games

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MEMORY THREE Date: 2014

Answer: Lindt Café Siege

MEMORY FOUR Date: 1854

Answer: Eureka Stockade

MEMORY FIVE Date: 1975

Answer: Dismissal of Gough Whitlam/Whitlam Constitutional Crisis

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MEMORY SIX Date: 1936

Answer: Death of the last Thylacine/Tasmanian Tiger (Extinction of…)

MEMORY SEVEN Date: 1890

Answer: Banjo Paterson publishes ‘The Man from the Snowy River’

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MEMORY EIGHT Date: 1973

Answer: Opening of Sydney Opera House

MEMORY NINE Date: 2009

Answer: Black Saturday Bushfires

MEMORY TEN Date: 1992

Answer: Mabo decision (Native Title case)

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QUESTION TWO DO YOU REMEMBER…? THE TASK 12 MARKS This task is simple. How many countries in Europe can you remember simply from a map of the continent? Please write your answers in the countries or use arrows if needed.

One mark is awarded for five or less correct countries, and one additional mark for every three correct countries after that (i.e. 2/12 for 6-9 correct, 3/12 for 10-13 correct etc.). There are forty-seven countries in total – 46 or 47 correct will score 12/12 marks.

SEE FOLLOWING PAGE FOR GUIDELINES – SEE IMAGE BELOW FOR ANSWERS

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Question Two guidelines

Please refer to the map above for the correct locations.

Some common errors might include:

- Identifying Crete (large island in southern Greece) as a separate country

- Identifying the separate western part of Russia (below Lithuania, see #) as “…”

- Identifying Sardinia or Corsica (two islands west of Italy) as separate countries

- Identifying Northern Ireland as a separate country to the UK

DEDUCT ONE MARK FOR EACH OF THESE ERRORS

Otherwise, the following scheme applies:

0-5 correct – 1/12 marks

6-9 correct – 2/12

10-13 correct – 3/12

14-17 correct – 4/12

18-21 – 5/12

22-25 – 6/12

26-29 – 7/12

30-33 – 8/12

34-37 – 9/12

38-41 – 10/12

42-45 – 11/12

46-47 – 12/12

(there are 47 countries to identify)

Other considerations

- Please make allowances for minor spelling errors

- Answers must be clearly correlatable to the relevant part of the map. Do not award marks if it appears that answers are simply being placed in the general area that a country might be in.

- If the answers on the picture above are difficul to discern, please use Google Maps!

- Kosovo is a country for the purposes of this exercise.

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QUESTION THREE MEMORY LIKE AN ELEPHANT THE TASK 12 MARKS If there is one realistic “superpower” that humans might possess, it is likely eidetic memory. Also known as photographic memory, this is a capability which purportedly allows individuals to recall incredible detail in images after only a few seconds of exposure. For example, in one very early study, a Harvard University student named ‘Elizabeth’ could apparently recall the arrangement of 20,000 random dots after being very briefly exposed to 10,000 with her right eye and another 10,000 with her left.

It goes without saying that such an ability is extremely rare, and it is in fact yet to be rigorously scientifically proven (although this, of course, depends on the leniency extended to the test subject). Nevertheless, many people have claimed to possess eidetic memory throughout the course of history.

The table below gives the names of these people, in anagrams if capitalised, and co-ordinates of a city in which they lived at some point. Your challenge is to use this information to identify such locations.

ANSWERS

NAME COORDINATES LOCATION

LESAT 47.50°N, 19.04°E Budapest

Kim Peek 40.76°N, 111.89°W Salt Lake City

Akira Haraguchi 35.69°N, 139.69°E Tokyo

DIVAINC 43.77°N, 11.26°E Florence

Johannes Kepler 50.08°N, 14.44°E Prague

Sukarno 6.18°S, 106.87°E Jakarta

LABEZITHE 42.38°N, 71.12°W Cambridge, MA or Harvard University

Robert Evans 33.41°S, 150.30°E Sydney or Blue Mts.

Charles Nalder Baeyertz 41.29°S, 174.78°E Wellington

NOTSAICIN 45.46°N, 9.19°E Milan

David Boies 40.71°N, 74.01°W New York

LEEUR 59.93°N, 30.34°E St Petersburg

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QUESTION FOUR A DISTANT MEMORY THE TASK 15 MARKS Professor and cartographer Norman Thrower notes that an examination of maps across different periods of history can provide insight into the “changing thought of the human race”. Maps can never convey every aspect of information about a location, so instead they record what a society at any given time believes is most important to remember.

You will be presented with a series of ancient maps which are vastly different from those of today. Use them to complete the short-answer questions associated with each map,

PART ONE – THE BEDOLINA MAP

The picture above is a redrawing of a map carved onto a rock platform in the Italian Alps. It dates back to a period between the Bronze and Iron Ages (1000-200BCE), and is 9m long by 4m wide. It is one of the oldest discovered topographic maps in the world.

1. What are the key focuses of this map? List three. (3 marks)

Shelter, livestock, cultivated land/farmland, pathway/routes (any three)

2. What do the squares with dots inside most likely represent? (1 mark)

Cultivated land/farmland

3. In the top left (below the animals) is a ‘Camunian Rose’ – a common symbol found on carvings in this area of the world. What might it represent? (1 mark)

Religion or solar/astral movements (accept either)

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PART TWO – MARSHALLESE STICK CHARTS

This is a common map-type used by inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, a country in the Pacific Ocean north-east of Australia. Specimens were not discovered until the late 1800s but have likely been used for several centuries prior. A number of distinct types of stick chart exist, with different purposes including local and long-distance navigation and teaching.

1. What are the two main materials used for these maps? (2 marks)

Shells, palm/coconut tree/pandanus fronds

2. What do the dotted components represent? (1 mark)

Islands

3. What do the long, straight lines represent? (1 mark)

Navigation (sailing) routes

4. What do the short, curved lines represent? (1 mark)

Currents/swell direction (accept either)

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PART THREE – EARLY BABYLONIAN MAP

This clay tablet from Babylon represents a third, and again entirely different, conception of the world. Now housed in the British Museum, the tablet dates back to 600BCE and was discovered in Iraq in the late 1800s.

1. What does this map show about how the Babylonians viewed themselves? (1 mark)

They saw themselves as the centre of the world (egocentric/geocentric)

(award half marks for this question if appropriate)

2. What underlying symbol can be seen on the map? What astronomical theory is related to such a symbol, despite being antithetical to the answer for question one? (2 marks)

A sun (1 mark). Heliocentrism (1 mark).

3. What do the small circles represent? (1 mark)

Towns/cities/villages

4. What does the (outer) large circle represent (1 mark)

The whole world

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QUESTION FIVE STICKING TO THE TASK THE TASK 11 MARKS Most of us call them USBs. Some say flash drive. Others use the term memory stick. Whatever the name, they have become an integral part of our daily lives and it is always a tragedy when yours is inevitably lost (whether it be down the side of a seat, left in a classroom or borrowed by a friend and never returned).

What most of us don’t know about, however, are the intricate interiors of these vital pieces of technology. In truth, at least for most people, it doesn’t matter either! Nevertheless, we can always imagine, and that is the basis of this challenge.

On the following page is an outline of a memory stick. This is the border of a map which you are to create. Your task is to represent the functions and variety of storage items associated with a memory stick, but using conventional map features. A similar style of map-making is shown in the image below (although slightly more artistic than that which you are required to portray).

You may use the space outside the shape to briefly explain the components of your map, if required (using arrows).

MARKING CRITERIA Please use half marks wherever appropriate, at your discretion

1. Intuitive use of cartographic features to represent information (2 marks)

a. i.e. relevance/correlation of map features and memory stick functions/storage items

2. Proportional and logical composition (2 marks)

a. This includes both the choice and placement of key map components

3. Variety of cartographic features employed (2 marks)

4. Variety of memory stick functions/storage items depicted (1 mark)

5. Creativity and general aesthetic appeal (2 marks)

6. Inclusion of all elements of BOLTSS (2 marks)

a. (1/2 mark each for orientation, legend, title, scale)

b. Border is already provided.

c. You do not need to provide a source.

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Cartography 7/8 Question 5

Team Number: __________