The Geographer's Tools

Time has gotten away from me in and this blog has fallen behind in keeping the blog update.  The past few days have been a bit of a  blur.  Earlier this week we wrapped up the first section of chapter one and finished it out with a quiz on Tuesday.  After the quiz we have began our journey into exploring the geographers tool box.  Our exploration has checked out the strengths and weaknesses of maps and globes.  Not only did we learn what a map projection is, but also how they are made and why every single map has inaccuracies because of distortion. In order to demonstrate why distortion happens we  tried to flatten out an orange peel and learned that stretching and tearing always occurs...this is distortion. The three major types of projections that we must remember are the mercator projection, the equal area projection, and lastly the Robinson projection.