1. Charting Our World

2. Warmup
On your warmup sheet, please put today’s date in the Date column
Please write “persuasive writing” as your warmup
Answer the following question on a separate sheet of paper: How long does something/someone have to be gone/dead for research to be considered “anthropology/archaeology” versus “grave robbing”?

3. Cartography Cartographer:
The creation of maps including projection and design
A person who draws or produces maps
Cartographer:

4. Map Projection
Definition: representing the spherical earth on a plane (flat) surface
It is impossible to transform a sphere into something flat without creating distortions in the 2-D image.
Geographers use numerous mathematical equations to produce map projections.

5. Mercator Projection Most common map projection since 1569
Distorts the size & shape of the continents (especially Greenland & Antarctica)
Meridians do not converge

6. Conic Projection
Not geometrically accurate. Better for regional or hemispheric maps

7. Interrupted Projection
Show’s true size and shape
Distances are inaccurate and map is broken in many places

8. Robinson’s Projection
Scales vary throughout the map
More distortion at the poles
World map used by National Geographic since 1988

9. Azimuthal Projection
Size & distances distorted the further away you get from the starting point
Distances between two places are accurate on a straight line through the starting point only
Used for aviation

10. The real size of countries and continents
A PERFECT PROJECTION?
WHAT’S UP WITH THE GLOBE?