Geographic Distortion Lab Report

14. On the left section of the graph paper (Tonga Trench) create a scale for the horizontal axis (longitude) ranging from 173-180 °W. Going by intervals of 1°W, label the right end of the x-axis 173 and the left end of the x-axis 180.

2. (a) Were latitude the only control of temperature, the isotherms would run straight across the maps from east to west. Describe one region of the world where this hypothetical isotherm pattern is actually observed.

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

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

Since Geography is such an important part of a story it is used to shape and compose a general feel and mind set while reading the story. In the article “Geography Matters” Thomas C. Foster covers the importance and the influence that geography can have on a story. In one section he references the geography of “ Italy or Greece or Africa or Malaysia or Vietnam” and how when characters are sent “south, it’s so they can run amok”(Foster 179). Thomas’s words relay a bias about having characters go to those geological areas and so if those areas were to be used in a story it would shape the story to

input the latitude and longitude into a website that puts latitude and longitude coordinates on a

For the shape distortion the Mercator Projection would help minimize that effect because the overall outline and shape of the countries are correct. The Goode Homolosine and Robinson Projections do not have good shapes and are immensely distorted. For the direction distortion, the Mercator Projection minimizes the most distortion because the countries are located in the right place and keeps

Maps often contain a scale to indicate to the reader how far a given distance on a map is in the real world.

Pennsylvania consists of 6 Physiographic Provinces, namely, (1) The Atlantic Coastal Plain Province, (2) The Appalachian Plateau Province, (3) The Ridge and Valley Province, (4) The Piedmont Province, (5) The New England Province and (6) The Central Lowlands Province. Each province has its own geology and particular type of landscape which plays a very important role in the lives of the people living in these regions. For this assignment, I am supposed to describe the geologic history of Pennsylvania’s most important provinces, i.e. the first 4 provinces.

The first map that I drew is about, the space I inhabited in the past, which is Mexico City. In this part of my life I resided in a very residential area- one that in the United States could

The city that I chose to discuss about is Ottawa, Ontario. Ottawa is located 99km north of the southern border and is in Southeastern Ontario. The longitudes and latitudes of Ottawa is 42.42 degrees north and 75.69 degrees west.

I’ll use Figure 2.0 as my example in this explanation of the representative fraction. Full map scale calculations for all figures can be found in the appendices at the end of this

The Equator is a major line of latitude. The Equator is the one imaginary line that divides the world in equal halves. Above the Equator is the Northern Hemisphere and under the Equator is the Southern Hemisphere. The Equator is 0 degrees, meaning that it isn’t north or south it is just in the middle.

The differences between our maps is defiantly noticeable, starting from the overall colors of the maps, were you can see that I drew a street and several buildings that took a big part of the map, that’s why dark colors like black and brown were dominating the map, while her map was more colorful, because she added some natural attractions. In terms of locations, according to Klinghoffer, “when a child draw a map of his neighborhood, he egocentrically tends to place his own home near its center”, and that’s what I saw in her map, where she located her home at the bottom center, while my home is at the bottom left, the reason why is it on the left side, it is because in reality it is on the left the side of my neighborhood. The distance between her house and Zayed University is small, since she lives in Mohamed bin Zayed city, which is near to Zayed University, and since I live in new Shahama, my map showed a clear big distance between my house and the university. Another difference is that she included

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