Friday, August 30, 2013The Plan: 1.Warm Up: Answer and write the following question in your notebook (GUESS!): “In what way are the majority of NFL football fields geographic (and Woodforest Stadium, but not quite CPHS’ football field)?”

2. Continue and Complete our Map Skills Notes from Yesterday

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Geography Map SkillsGeography Map Skills

• Connection Question: How do maps help Geographers represent geographic information?

• What is the difference between a map and a globe?

Map - a symbolic representation on a flat piece of paper. Maps are flat, two-dimensional representations of space.

•Globe - a scale model of the earth

Geographic Space

Outer space

NOT

Today you will learn:

Be able to identify parts of a map

Be able to identify longitude and latitude and use them to tell you where

things are located

Know latitude separates north and south

Know longitude marks east and west

Know the equator

Know the prime meridian

• What are the lines on the globe (grid system) called?

• Latitude - runs E to W; measures N & S

• lines of latitude are also called _________

• degrees of latitude: show the distance from the equator, from 1 degree to 90 degrees.

• major lines of latitude:

• Longitude - runs N to S; measures E & W

lines of longitude are also called meridians

• degrees of longitude Going East or West from the Prime Meridian, increase from 1 degree to 180 degrees either East or West (360° in total)

• major line of longitude: THE PRIME MERIDIAN! ZERO DEGREES LONGITUDE

parallels

• Four Main Elements found on a map:

Title

Key/Legend

Compass Rose

Scale

Reading a MapReading a Map

Map ProjectionsMap Projections

Distortion & Properties

Distortion & Properties

“All maps lie flat, and all flat maps lie”

Four main map properties

Shape - shapes of the objects on the map

Size - amount of space taken up by landforms

Distance - represented distance between objects

Direction - degree of accuracy representing the directions (cardinal and intermediate)

Robinson ProjectionRobinson Projection

Slightly distorts all 4 properties

Mercator ProjectionMercator Projection

Accurately shows shapes, but distorts size (don’t forget to show video!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM

Peters ProjectionPeters Projection

Accurately shows size but distorts shape

Pretending the human head is a globe, approximate what a head would look like

projected like a map. Maybe draw your map self portrait!

Pretending the human head is a globe, approximate what a head would look like

projected like a map. Maybe draw your map self portrait!

Map ScaleMap Scale

The larger the space being represented, the smaller the scale.

So which has a larger scale...a map of the world or a map of The Woodlands, TX?