1. 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

2. 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?

3. 1 5 6 2 3 7 4 8

4. Which type of scale? 1 3 2

5. Which scale is larger? 4 or 5 or

6. What part of a map is this?7 6

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

8. 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?

9. 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

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

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

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

16. 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!

17. 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.

18. Early mapmaking:
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

19. 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 years
Erastosthenes- 1st to use word “geography”; calculated circumference of the Earth and came up with early map of climates

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

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