Friday, August 30, 2013 The 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 4,5

Geography 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

Each degree of latitude and longitude is subdivided into smaller units of minutes and seconds.

What do you call half of the earth (globe)? What are the two types of location? What are the two main types of general purpose maps? What is a special purpose map?

Four Main Elements found on a map: Title Key/Legend Compass Rose Scale Reading a Map

Map Projections

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)

Map Projections Equal area projections - maintain size but distort other properties Conformal - maintain shape but DOP Azimuthal - maintain direction but DOP (perspective maps, such as a polar projection) Equidistant - maintain distance but DOP

Robinson Projection Slightly distorts all 4 properties

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

Peters 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!

Map 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?