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Essential Questions
What is the location of a place?
How can geographic vocabulary help us understand the world around us?
What can geographic information systems teach us about the world?
Cartography Related Links
See also SS Links
Globe Trotter--Test your geoknowledge
Center for History & New Media, GMU
National Atlas--US Dept. of the Interior
Map Unit
Unit Study Guide--This guide features all the concepts and vocabulary you need to know to master the map unit.
Vocabulary--Named Lines On The Earth
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
Prime Meridian
International Date Line
Animation: Earth Sun Relationship
Vocabulary: Grid System
Latitude
Longitude
Degree
Minute
Second
Vocabulary: Map Projections
Robinson
Mercator
Conic
Wikipedia List of Map Projections
Flattening the Earth Animation--Look especially at slide 4
Types of Map Projections--Youtube
Orange Peel Problem--Youtube
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