- Shift from simply a tool that provides location reference to a tool used by geographers to communicate complex geographic phenomena
- Indianapolis is one of the only capitals that is not on a body of water
Map Scale
- Written Scale
- Graphic Scale
Projection
- Projection: method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map
- Discussed about the Mercator Projection, Goode Homolosine Projection, and the Robinson Projection
Geographic Grid
- Is a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on earths surface
- Parallels are numbered by latitude
- Meridians are numbered by longitude
- Points on earths surface can be communicated by referencing points of latitude and longitude intersection
- Further accuracy can be found by dividing each degree into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds
- Earths divided into 360 degrees longitude
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