August 16 Table of Contents: 7. Mcdonald’s Globilization 8. Quiz #1 9. Mental Mapping Project 10. History of Cartography Notes 11. Geographers on Instagram Agenda: Review homework and collect forms; discuss summer assignment Intro- McDonald’s activity Quiz #1 Notes on Cartography Geographers on Instagram Homework- Finish Summer Assignment (due Tuesday) Read article on website- Do maps create or represent reality? Answer in a one page typed response using your own opinion and info from the article. (Due Tuesday) Mental Mapping Project due August 26

Map the School Reflection How difficult was this experiment? Did you feel you and your partner worked well together? Why or why not? What is one scenario where you think your large scale map would be used? What is one scenario where you think your small scale map would be used?

1 5 6 2 3 7 4 8

Which type of scale? 1 3 2

Which scale is larger? 4 or 5 or

What part of a map is this? 7 6

Which line is this? 8 10. What are the four intermediate directions? 9

Homework Check 11. What is the answer to question #1 on your homework? 12. What is the answer to question #5 on your homework? 13. What is your answer to question #15 on your homework?

Geography Study of location of people across Earth and activities across Earth and the reasons they are there “study of the Earth” 2 types- Physical- natural features and landforms Human- where and why human activities take place

Main areas of human geography: Population Migration Culture (language, religion, food, art, etc.) Politics Development Agriculture Industry Urbanization

Identify the areas of human geography shown in this film clip!

History of Mapmaking Cartography- mapmaking Purpose of maps- 1. reference tool 2. communications tool

Emmett’s map of Disney World (okay- it still needs labels to be a TRUE map, but he can’t write!) This image, drawn by a 4 year old stores both reference material and geographic information. If he could spell, and there were labels, it would be more convincing! Black = scary ride (Pirates, Peter Pan) Green= good ride (Tree House, Buzz Lightyear is the largest one, his favorite!) Trust me, when he drew the rides they were in the right order!

Ga-Sur 2500 B.C. This is the oldest know map, drawn on a clay tablet in Ancient Babylon. The line drawing is a clearer image of the map, which explains the position of the town on a river, in a valley.

Early mapmaking: 600-500 BC- Miletus, a city in modern Turkey- center of mapmaking Some Early Greeks: Thales- used geometry to measure land Anaximander- world map made cylinder Hecateus- first geography book

Aristotle- 1st to demonstrate that the Earth was a sphere Ptolemy- created the Guide to Geography that listed basic principles of mapmaking. We used his maps for 1000+ years Erastosthenes- 1st to use word “geography”; calculated circumference of the Earth and came up with early map of climates

Non-Europeans Phei Hsiu (or Fei Xiu)- elaborate map of China in AD 267 al-Idrisi- Muslim world map in 1154

Age of Exploration- world maps get more accurate and more available Ortelius’s Map Mercator’s Map