Flat Map

The north pole on the flat map is located along the top and therefore is a flat line.

Work through the explanatory material on units of longitude and latitude, finding longitude and latitude, and a bit of history (optional).

These maps show different elevation points, contours, mountains, valleys, bodies of water, and vegetation. You can only find the elevation and contour information on a topographic map, which makes it different from any other map. People use topographic maps for many different things. One reason people use topographic maps is for hiking. It helps people locate trails, and find there way back to where they started. Contour lines show the different elevations of the landscape. It also shows how steep the slope of the elevations are. Contour lines only show certain elevations. The lines are evenly spaced apart. It makes reading the map a lot easier to do, because it is not as

make it look like an actual landscape. The visual rhythms my eyes follow is the sky and

　　From the synthesis map, you can see there are some suitable to unsuitable places for the land development. Overall, there is approximately 70 percent of the land suitable for development with caution. For example, people should consider what kind of slope it is like the steeper slope always has a high risk of mudslides, and what kind of surficial material it is like tills are more stable than coastal sediments. Moreover, there is over 20 percent are suitable for development. Most of them occur around the coast. The reason is the coast has unstable materials that is risky to do the construction. Also, the coastal area are risky

Figure 9 shows the separation of layers of a map image which is obtained from [5]. In this case, the map image contains four layers as stated in the above paragraph. Each color is paired with the background color to form a layer of bi-level images, as summarized in

There are many things in this world, and in others, that I believe cannot be fully understood. For example, in the story of Flatland, A. Square explains his world and what he thinks of ours. To him, our world has space, thus calling it Spaceland, which is something they do not have in Flatland, hints the name Flat-land. In effort to explain the difference in the worlds, one would find it confusing and hard to comprehend Abbott's writing, especially for those of us who have only been told and informed about the world of three dimensions.

In chapter 1 the first map he discusses is the old one, the trusty rusty, the map you almost fell asleep looking at in high school world geography. The paper multi-fold map. Jennings explains that he could stare at those maps for hours upon hours. For him it was like being on a never ending vacation. The places he would visit by imagination and the names of those places absolutely drew him in and held him in an utter fascination. He felt as if he could sit on the highest point in Arkansas all from his dimly lit room seated in a recliner. The world was endless; he could go anywhere he wanted without spending anything but his time.

The book that I have chosen for this project is called Mapping Penny’s World by Loreen Leedy. This book teaches students the concepts of making and understanding maps. This book starts out with a girl named Lisa talking about how her class is learning how to use maps. The story then proceeds to Lisa making many different kinds of maps. Throughout the book, she creates maps of places like her bedroom, her dog’s treasure map, and her dog’s favorite places. The book talks about important things that need to be added to a map, which I find extremely helpful. This is one reason I think this book is such a great resource to use for social studies. Another reason I think it is a good resource is because the maps are very detailed, which helps students

Southeast Asia for example was only identified because it was “a suitable geographical platform for military strategists.” There are not many characteristics that are unique to that part of the world. Considering the agricultural patterns for example, they are the same patterns found in southern China and central Madagascar to name a few. There is no concrete way to define landmasses based on environmental criteria since there are many different, unrelated areas with the same environmental conditions. Southwest Asia and North Africa is another example of this.

“Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” is a mathematical fiction that was written by Edwin Abbot towards the end of the Romantic Period and into the beginning of the Realism period. A lot of people these days find difficulty in understanding higher levels of dimensional geometry, and it is not uncommon now-a-days for teachers (or anyone in the math field for that matter) to use Flatland as a reference to help another better understand the difficult concept of geometry.

In view of Thomas Friedman’s work “It’s a flat world, after all”, the entire planet is turning into a global village due to a rapid growth of information technology. There are 10 major contributors, which were also named “flateners” by Friedman, that made the playing field level. Undoubtedly, current sophistication in technology has provided us great access to internet, a virtual platform where people are capable of communicating, sharing knowledge, or performing online activities. Globalization appears to have collapsed the concerns of space and time by outsourcing cheap labor from another continent to undertake the same task but with equal or better performance. To some extent, Friedman has brought about an

Work through the explanatory material on units of longitude and latitude, finding longitude and latitude, and a bit of history (optional). Open the flat map explorer. Familiarize yourself with the cursor and how it prints out the longitude and latitude of the active map location. Note that you can vary the central meridian of the map (i.e. change its

The sensorial keys- the sandpaper globe and colour globe, continent map, map of Europe, map of Asia, America, Africa & Ireland.

The image is the Ha’il Province of Saudi Arabia (highlighted in red, figure 2), located in the northern section of the Arabian Peninsula (highlighted in red, figure 3). The area has many defining features that make up the scene. There are urban areas, the major of those being Ha’il the capital of Ha’il Province and has a population of 412,758 (Google Maps). The image also includes many agricultural fields that are rather interesting because of their shape (Google Maps). These urban and agricultural areas are a part of the Plains which makes up more than half of the scene (Hereher Pg. 350) The most noticeable feature is the large area covered by the Great Nafud Sand Sea across the top of the image (Hereher Pg. 350). There is a series of rugged mountains formed of Igneous and metamorphic rock in the southern part of the image (Hereher Pg. 353). Within these mountains there are even Volcanic craters that dot the