Thursday, November 2, 2017

5 Themes of Geography Map





Analyzing the world with the five themes of geography helps people better understand connections between people and the earth because it shows us what category things are put into and what they do for the earth. I think this because all of the themes show you different things. Like trade routes or different regions. And those things tell us what is happening and what a place is like around the earth, which helps us organise the geography of the earth.

Human and environment interaction is the most difficult to understand because in my opinion, adapt alter and use are very close together, which makes them hard to distinguish. If you alter the earth you change something on it. If you use the earth you use it to make something with. So in the end they do something similar.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The Problem with Everyday Maps

This is a video showing everyone the problem with the map. It will explain what is wrong with the map!

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Jetrino Island




I find it easy to do map skills & compass rose. I find this easy because it's in my opinion, easy to look at a compass and see which way is north, east, south, and west. What I struggled with most was coordinates. It was more difficult because it involved mapping 1 set of coordinates on a place of the whole world. It is made difficult because you have to be exact with your latitude and longitude. Map skills are necessary because they help you find stuff on the earth, and once your learn them mapping and finding on the earth will be a lot easier. They help me better understand geography because they help me learn how to use a map properly.