maps

Today in class we learned a lot about maps. Geography is one thing we learned about. Geography is the study of where things are found on earths surface and the reasons for locations. One of the questions we were looking to answer for the class is where are people and activities found on earth. The art of making maps is called cartography. Being a cartographer would be a very hard job in the past because arial views were not possible with that times technology. A very prominent cartographer in the past was Eratosthenes. He made a very popular map but it was terribly inaccurate. All of the countries were not to scale and it looked like everything was connected. We also learned the difference between absolute and relative location. Absolute location is when it's expressed in degrees, minutes, or seconds. Relative location is when it is a regional position relative to the positions of other places.

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