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QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS 
A. How the six common means of transportation compare in cost. 
1. Arrange the six means of transportation (page 159) in the order of (a) 
speed ; (b) size of loads; (c) cost of carrying a ton a mile; (d) length of 
time that they have been in use; (e) extent of the earth’s surface where 
they are common. Explain your reasons for each arrangement. 
A horse and wagon may cost $500 and be able to carry a ton. A motor 
truck may cost $2000 and carry three tons; a train, $100,000 and carry 
2000 tons; a steamship, $1,000,000 and carry 10,000 tons. Explain why 
the cost of transportation diminishes as the cost of the means of transpor- 
tation increases. 
B. Examples of the different kinds of transportation. 
1. Be able to point out on the wall map the location of each of theexamples 
in the table below. 
2. 
ExampLES OF TRANSPORTATION CLASSIFIED BY KIND oF POWER 
KIND OF POWER ILLUSTRATIONS OF USE 
{. Human Power 
(a) On heads 
(b) On shoulders 
(¢) On backs 
(d) By wheeled vehicles 
(e) On water 
Jars of sacred Ganges water at Benares 
Buckets of fish on poles in Yokohama 
Freight from steamers in Constantinople 
Passengers by jinrikisha in Hangchow 
Cheese in rowboats on the canals of 
Holland 
II. Animal Power 
(a) Horse 
(b) Mule 
Farm products and the mail to Omsk 
Pack loads of chestnuts among the 
Pyrenees 
Silver ore to.elevators in mines near 
Mexico City 
Logs out of forests near Vancouver 
Passengers through the jungle near 
Rangoon 
Pack loads at Lhassa 
Pack loads of dates to Bagdad 
Food supplies by sled to Point Barrow 
Milk to customers in Antwerp 
Tin ore from the Andes to La Paz 
(¢) Donkey 
(d) Ox 
(e) Elephant 
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(c 
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(7, 
Yak 
Camel 
Reindeer 
Jog 
Llama 
III. Mechanical Power 
(a) Gravity 
Through flowing 
water 
On land 
Bamboo rafts loaded with teak, Irrawadi 
River 
Grain out of elevators, Liverpool