What is Social Studies?

What is Geography?

• The study of human culture and where they are located

• The study of the Earth and everything human and non human.

• The study of Earth and it's ecosystems.

What is Social Studies?

• Different subjects that study human society.

• Different environment branches and study of humanity.

• Different subjects that study the decision process of humans.

Branch of Geography dealing with natural features: Water, air, animals and land.

• Cultural Geography

• Geology

• Physical Geography

Which example below is an example for Human Geography?

• Going to a Lions' game.

• The mountain of Mount Rushmore.

• Climate of North America.

Which Projection is this?

• Mercator Projection

• Robinson Projection

• Peters' Projection

True or False: Map projections are only about how you view the map.

• TRUE!

• FALSE!

Which map projection is this?

• Mercator Projection

• Robinson Projection

• Peters Projection

A positive about the Mercator Projection is that ​ it's ​ (a)   . Some big negatives are that ​ (b)   and ​​ (c)  

• easy to use
• difficult to read
• inaccurate for navigation
• complex to understand
• Africa is too small
• Antarctica is too big.
• Africa is too big.

Some positives about the Peters Projection are that ​ it's ​ (a)   ​ and​ (b)   Some big negatives are that ​​ ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• the North and South Pole  are gone.
• The continents are too long.
• a better projection
• Africa is the right size.
• the continents are too short.
• it distorts the equator significantly.
• it shows the world upside down.

Some positives about the Robinson Projection are that ​ ​ its ​ (a)   and ​ ​ (b)   ​ A negative is that ​ (c)  

• the best projection we have
• the continents look the best they can.
• it is not easy to teach how to use it.
• it is the most accurate projection available.
• the colors are very vibrant and appealing.
• it is widely used in video games.