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Using the Textbooks (p. 2-6) located in your desks:

Please define the following key terms in your notebooks:

Projection

Hemisphere

Latitude

Longitude

Grid System

Absolute Location

Great Circle Route

GOODE’S INTERRUPTED PROJECTION

- An equal-area projection.- The projection quite accurately

presents the size and shape of the continents.

- Distances- especially in the oceans- are less accurate.

GOODE’S INTERRUPTED PROJECTION

DRAWING MAPS

- A Map Projection is a way of drawing the earth on a flat piece of paper.

MERCATOR PROJECTION

- One of the earliest types of maps drawn.

- Created by Gerardus Mercator in 1569.- This type of projection shows land

shapes fairly accurately, but not size or distance.

MERCATOR PROJECTION

ROBINSON PROJECTION

- The Robinson projection shows both the size and shape of oceans and continents quite accurately.

- Textbook and atlas maps are often Robinson projections.

ROBINSON PROJECTION

HEMISPHERES

-One-half of the globe.- The Equator divides the earth into

Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

- - The Prime Meridian divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

HEMISPHERES

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE

Latitude- Distances measured in degrees North and South of the Equator at 0 degrees latitude.

- The Letters N or S following the degree symbol tells you if the location is north or south of the Equator.

- The North and South poles are at 90 degrees North (N) and South (S) Latitude.

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE

Longitude is distance measured in degrees East (E) or West (W) of the Prime Meridian at 0 degrees longitude.

Lines of latitude and longitude cross each other in the form of a grid system.

- Knowing a place’s latitude and longitude allows you to locate it exactly on a map or globe.

- You can name an absolute location by naming the latitude and longitude lines nearest to that location.

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE

GREAT CIRCLES

See pg. 6

Section 1 Review

Answer Questions 2 and 3 in notebooks.

GLOBE VS. MAP