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Introduction to Geography and Culture
Instructor: Daniel Ondich dan.ondich@sobrietyhigh.org


 * What's Due for Lesson 10:**

Video Version** ||= **On Nicenet.org:** None ||= **In your blog:** None ||= **In your wiki:** Create Map Projections page and answer questions || **Other:** Quiz || **Vocabulary:** None ||
 * = **What's Due


 * Step 1**:

Take the quiz. Make sure that you submit it when you are done. You will see a message after it has been submitted.

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 * Step 2**:

Log into your course wiki and create a new page titled "Map Projections". Copy and paste the following questions into your new page.


 * Map Projection**

What is cartography?

What is a cartographic map projection?

Why is the Earth’s shape called a spheroid or oblate ellipsoid?

How is latitude measured? What does it show?

What are the Earth’s hemispheres? What separates the hemispheres?

Explain why the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer are important.

Why doesn’t the sun set at the Antarctic Circle on December 21?

What is the accepted Prime Meridian? Why is this a convenient location?

Why do all map projections have distortion? What things are distorted?

Why are Mercator maps often used incorrectly as world maps? How should it be used? Why?

Look at the Equidistant Cylindrical map. What happens to the actually distance the farther north or south of the Equator you measure? Why?

Why is the shortest distance between two points on a map usually not a straight line? Explain.

What are the pros and cons of using a conformal map?


 * Step 3**:

Click [|here] to go to the map project website to answer the questions above in your wiki. You will be given time to complete this assignment in the next lesson.


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