9-15-17

              In today's Honor's Human Geography Class with Mr. Schick we learned had a very interesting lesson on two world maps. We learned about the difference in the Mercator Projection Map and the Peter Projection Map. Through most of our entire lives we have been believing the world looks like what the Mercator Map projects to be. However, the Mercator Map has many flaws. It projects Greenland to be the same size, if not bigger, as the United States. However, The United States is much larger than Greenland. The Mercator Map also projects Alaska to be much bigger than Mexico. But, Mexico is actually 0.1 times bigger than Alaska. The Mercator Map also projects Africa to be much smaller than it actually is. As we can see their are many things that are wrong with the Mercator Map. A lot of people wonder why it is so wrong. It is because of the man named Mercator, that made the map, wanted the latitude and longitude lines to be nice and straight and be able to connect countries to make it easier for explorers to navigate. However, the Peter's Projection Map makes every country's size exactly how it should be. The Peter's Projection Map looks much slimmer and longer. After we were finished with discussing the Peter's Projection Map the bell rang and brought the class to an end.

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