Means of Transportation

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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 transportation
 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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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