This is a light hearted look at what you can do to help with some geography revision, or to help teach your child a little bit about the planet we live on.
1. Memory test. Decide what you are going to learn today, whether it be names of all the major rivers in America (the ones on your world map poster anyway), all the countries in Africa, or the oceans of the [...] Continue Reading…
There are probably three types of maps that are most commonly purchased by the layman who is not interested in having a poster on their wall showing mean precipitation or mineral wealth distributions for example.
Physical Map
The first of these three is called a physical map and it will show all the key physical features on the surface of the planet. Typically, these are coloured to broadly depict the true [...] Continue Reading…
The world is a globe so how can that be accurately represented on a two dimensional surface, when a map is printed on to a poster or in a book?
If you think of the web of lines on a globe that is the grid of latitude and longitude, peeling them off a globe and sticking them on to a flat surface without altering their position or bearing to each [...] Continue Reading…
As well as a classic world map poster showing countries and nation states, any data that is relevant on a global scale can be represented on a world map. This article explores seven such maps.
1. World climatology
Strictly speaking, there are in fact a variety of sub maps to this one. A key one will show the average annual precipitation across the globe. From this, it will be clear that areas [...] Continue Reading…
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A map of the world: I remember being very proud of a great Christmas present I received when I was a boy. A world map poster with countries coloured in pink, yellow, blue and green.
It was stuck [...] Continue Reading…