Human Geo Blog

Eratosthenes created the first world map in 195 BC. Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west portion of a point on Earth's surface. Longitude is measured by imagery lines. Longitude is used to measure distance in degrees from east to west from the Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian passes through Greenwhick, England, and is given the position of 0 degrees of longitude. The lines of longitude are also known as meridians. The lines of longitude run in a north-south direction. Also, the lines of longitude are equal in length.

Geography is the study of where things are found on Earth's surface and the reason for the location. Two questions that are asked are "Where are people and activities found on Earth?" and "Why are they found there?" The answer to both questions are the map. A map is a two-dimensional or a flat-scale model of the Earth's surface. The art and science of mapmaking is called cartography. Two purposes of a map is to help find the absolute and relative location. It is also used as a communication tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features. Absolute location is a portion expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude. Relative location is the regional or situation of a place relative to the portion of other places. Latitude is the geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south portion of a point on the Earth's surface. Important lines of latitude are Artic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Cap...

Situation is the location of a place relative to other places. Situations are used to help us for two reasons, finding places and understanding its importance. Many locations are important because they are accessible to other places. We use situation to identify important buildings, streets, and other land marks to direct others to a certain location. For example, many electronics where put together in the US, and then was put together and made in China. Many items and goods where shipped to China because of the low labor cost. Chinese employs make about 300 dollars a month. They make about 10%. US employs make about 3200 in a month.

Geographers can describe where things are by site. Site is the physical character of a place. Some characteristics of a place are climate, water, sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation. Site's characteristics have always had an impact in selecting a place to live and settle. Also the factors of a site where some settle can also depend on their culture. For example, some like hilltop site from easy defense from attack. Another example would be that many people would live near river-crossing points to make it easier to communicate with people in other places. Human have the ability to modify the charcuteries of a site. For example, Peter Minuit bought the island, Manhattan, for the equivalent of $23.75 worth of Dutch gold and silver coins and then Manhattan's additional area was created by filling in portions of the East River and the Hudson.

Today in Human Geography, I  got back my test, that I took last week. As a class, we reviewed it and went over all the correct answers and discussed the answers that we got wrong. I did really well on the test and scored a 95%. I did a lot better than I thought I was going to do. I thought that I was going to do bad on the essay questions but I actually got full credit for both. I got all the multiple choice questions right. On the second page, the fill in the planks, I got only two wrong. On that page, I was thinking I did worse. I also got one extra credit point, for knowing the original name of the mountain before it was named, Mt. Mckinely. Overall I am very happy with my grade that I got on my first human geo quiz.

The Mercator map is a world map projection created by Gerardus Mercator, a geographer and a cartographer. The  Mercator map was established in 1569.  The Mercator map has been used for many things, but is mainly used for navigation. The Mercator Map shows texture for mountain ranges. Another name for that is topography. Topography is a representation on a map of natural features of an area. Unlike the Mercator Map that is used for navigation, the Peters World Map is used to see the correct and accurate size from each countries, to each other. The Peters map was named after Arno Peters and James Gall. In 1855 at a science convention, described this type of map for the first time.