1. Advantages and disadvantages to different types of maps
Geography Skills
Advantages and disadvantages to different types of maps

2. Globes and Maps
Globe:
A globe is a round model of the Earth that shows its shape, lands, and directions as they truly relate to one another.

3. Globes Advantages? Disadvantages? Represent true land shape.
Cannot show detailed information
Difficult to carry

4. What is a map?
Map: A flat drawing of all or part of the Earth’s surface.
Advantages
Cartographers, or mapmakers, use mathematical formulas to transfer information from the round globe to a flat map.
Show small area with great detail
Display different types of information, such as population densities or natural resources
Transport easily

5. Maps
Disadvantages
Distort, or change, the accuracy of shapes and distances.

6. Types of Maps Goode’s Interrupted Equal- Area Projection
Robinson Projection
Mercator Projection
Winkel Tripel Projections
Helpful to compare land area among continents.
Minor distortions. Mostly accurate. Poles look flattened.
Land shapes good! Size or distance bad. Good for sea travel.
Good overall view of the continents’ shapes and sizes. Land areas are not as distorted near the poles as they are in the Robinson projections

9. Latitude vs. Longitude
Latitude: Imaginary lines that run east to west around the globe
Known as parallels divide the glove into units called degrees
Equator is in the middle
N and S
Longitude: Imaginary lines that run north and south
Also known as meridians
Prime Meridian is 0*
E and W
180* is the international date line
Absolute Location is a combination of the two.

11. Hemispheres