Human Geography 101

Longitude lines have a Meridian which it passes through 0 degrees longitude. The lines of longitude run North To South when you are looking at a map. They measure the distance east to west of the Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian is furthest from the equator and they meet at the poles. All the lines are equal length from each other. They are each equal length east, to west, not north to south. Longitude is measured by imaginary lines running parallel to the equator and used to measure the distance in degrees north or south of the equator. That is the definition of Longitude.

I missed class today due to leaving early for my away soccer game at Archbishop Spalding.

This is the blog from yesterday when I missed class because I was home sick. I am making it today because I am feeling better, and yesterday I was just to wiped out to post this.

My map score for the first one was 82 percent in 52 seconds My score for the second one was 100 percent in 23 seconds

We went over the test in class today, I didn't do that well, but I think that's because I didn't study enough. I only studied for like an hour over two nights. I definitely need to study way more than that. During the time that we went over the test I was learning all my mistakes and I have figured out most of the questions. I think if I took the test again I would get a way higher score than I did the first time, because of the fact that we went over it as a class and it was very helpful. I think my first essay had a enough words but I didn't state enough facts, for how long the essay was. The second essay was a little bit shorter than the first essay but I stated way more facts than I did on the first essay. I got a better grade on the second essay and I think it was just because of the fact that I had way more evidence to support my answer. So before I take tests, I have to do a better job of studying the info that I don't know and not as much the info that I hav...

Peters world map is a map of all the continents but labeling the countrys within them. The first thing I notice when I look at these kinds of maps, is that they are way more stretched out than other maps. So in Mercator maps it is what most kids see when they are in school and such when they are all the same size, but in Peters world map you can see a clear difference in size. Africa in Peters world map, is much larger than Africa on the Mercator map. It looks like its almost unrealistic and very stretched in the picture because we don't usually see it like this. In Mercator maps it does a good job of showing us lines of constant course and labeling key features. Mercator maps are very understandable and every body likes them since we have seen them so many times. Peters world map was more controversial and not as many people enjoyed it since it is a new and different kind of map. Sites: https://www.oxfordcartographers.com/our-maps/peters-projection-map/ https://livelearnevolve...

So in class today we were taking notes on different maps on how they were different. How they were the same. What we liked and what we didn't like about them as well. So one of the maps was a map of only the United states and it had many of the states labeled but no other continents or countries besides that. So that map was not classified as a world map, I don't know what they map is called though. That map is showing us topography as it showed us highways, airports. It also showed us some rivers and the key showed the scale of the map. The second map was a Gal stereographic map and that map instead of just showing the United States it showed all of the continents. Also is showed all the countries too, but it did not show the states within the United States like the first map. The third one also had all the continents but the were bigger than the second map and probably more accurate. On this map all the oceans were labeled as well unlike the other two maps. This map doesn...