1. Basic Geography Skills

2. If The World Were 100 People

3. Mercator Map (Most Common)

4. Observations North America is larger than Africa
Alaska is larger than Mexico
Greenland is larger than China

5. The True Size Of In reality: China is four times bigger than Greenland
Africa is three times bigger than North America
Mexico is larger than Alaska

6. Gall-Peters Map

7. Why? Maps are 2-D and the Earth is 3-D
The Mercator map was made in the 1500’s
Bias

9. Up Is Down?

11. Parts of a Map Map key or legend tells what the symbols mean
Title tells what the map is about
Compass rose shows the directions
Scale shows the distance between two places on a map

12. Types of maps
Political—shows political lines that divide countries (or states)
Physical—shows the physical features of the earth (mountains, deserts, etc.)
Climate—shows the different climate regions of the earth

13. What type of map is this?

14. How about this one?

15. And this one?

16. Types of maps
Territorial—shows a territorial area such as states or regions
Population—shows where people live or how many people live in certain areas
Road—shows the major roads in an area

17. What type of map is this?

18. How about this one?

19. And this one?

20. Maps
Cardinal directions (north, east, south, west) are found on the compass rose
Intermediate directions (northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest)
You use latitude and longitude to pinpoint location