Wednesday Shenanagins

     Today, we reviewed for our test tomorrow. We went over time zones, map scale, distortions, and some vocab words. I really have no idea what else to write so I'm just going to write the notes I took today. If its 7am in Bel Air, MD then its 6am in Chicago, Il. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so the west is going to be earlier than the east. The Earth is divided into 24 time zones, and each time zone is 15° longitude. The globe is 360° and the prime meridian is at 0° longitude. At 180° longitude there is the international date line, and the prime meridian goes through the town of Greenwich, UK. The town was named after the Royal Observatory that was located there. Map scale includes ratio, written scale, and drawn scale. The four types of distortions are shape, direction, distance, and relative size. Cartography is the science and/or art of making maps. A 2d scale of the Earth is a map. Antipodes are a place on the Earth where if you dig straight through the Earth you will reach land when you come out the other side. All time zones converge on the south pole, and the scientists there decide what time it is.