Notes on Geography

    On Thursday, we learned more about how Christopher Columbus was actually an evil man. We discussed how this wasn't being taught in any schools, but some states were either getting rid of the holiday or changing its name. We learned that Geographers use latitude and longitude to describe where things are, and that some places on opposite sides of the Earth have similar weather, when they are on the same latitude. Mr. Shick let us know that we will be studying the role of map scale, the difference between old and new maps, and how latitude and longitude are used to locate points on Earth. Geography is the study of where things are found on the planet. Human Geographers ask where people are found on Earth. They also ask why people are found where they are on the globe. A map is a two dimensional or flat scale model of Earth's surface.