Finding Our Place in the World

The word geography come from two roots meaning "written description" and "earth."

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One source of maps is the U.S. Geological Survey.

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The distance between degrees of latitude is about 69 miles.

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If you are very careful making a flat map, you can avoid all distortion.

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On a Mercator map, the farther you become from the equator the less distorted areas and distances become.

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Ptomely wrote a book titled Geography.

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What does GPS stand for

• Grand Positioning System

• Global Positioning System

• Global Posture Systematic

A Greek mathematician who became the first great geographer and calculated the circumference of the world?

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Eratosthenes

A Greek philosopher who developed a grid to make locating places on a map easier.

• Hipparchus

• Ptomely

• Copernicus

A Roman geographer who promoted the idea that the earth is the center of the universe.

• Mercator

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy