Tom Chen human geo blog

Today we learned about latitude, and we learned about absolute location  where we look for points on the earth based on longitude and latitude. We know the meridian And how do you measure distance from the meridian The equator is farthest from the poles Tomorrow is China's National Day, the Chinese people will rest for seven days, we will also have a quiz tomorrow.

We learned these words in class and got all the meaning grids and time zones the definition of geography the definition of maps maps serve two purposes relative location parallels meridians latitude longitude significant parallels equator Prime Meridian Also, be prepared for a series of quizzes - and a test - that will come next week.

Today we're going to focus on situations in class We learned about Singapore in Asia, the development of Singapore and the strait of malacca. Freighters from China and other Asian countries often pass through, which is one reason for Singapore's rapid growth We also discussed why most things in the United States are made in China. China's large population and poor people lead some factories to collect child labor and ship them back to the United States at a low price.

We learned some knowledge about site today site is the physical character of a place  The combination of physical features gives each place a distinctive character. Site factors have always been essential in selecting locations for settlements, although people have disagreed on the attributes of a good site, depending on cultural values. climate, water, sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, elevation human have the ability to modify the characteristics of a site

Today we review the test， My grades are a bit bad I missed three multiple choice questions I made lot of mistakes in filling in the blanks The essay is ok, the teacher gave me a lot of points Overall, there is a lot of room for improvement Better next time

Today we compare two maps of Mercator and Peters. The biggest difference between them is that one is the drawing map of the earth and the other is the flat map of the earth The two are quite different, and each has its own use.Here are some of the descriptions I found. The Peters projection is unique among world maps because the area ratios of all the continents are the same as they are in reality. That is, Greenland doesn’t seem larger than Africa, as the much-more-popular Mercator projection shows. On the Peters projection, the gargantuan continents of Africa and Asia appear quite large, while usually-inflated polar regions such as Canada and Greenland shrink back to their proper sizes. The Mercator projection, by comparison, grossly distorts the sizes of the continents – causing the Greenland-is-larger-than-Africa effect – but stays true to their shapes. Geographically speaking, the shapes are more important. It is far easier to change the scale of a map for different areas of th...