A Sample Question from the National Geography Challenge 1996 (Grades 10-12) which illustrates. . .
What projection is used on this world map?
- Robinson
- Mercator
- Gall-Peters
- Fuller
The National Geography Standards
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Globes and maps have been among the most ubiquitous tools for learning geography. They have been joined by aerial photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic information systems. As technology makes them easier to make, maps and other geographic representations appear practically everywhere. |
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Montgomery County, Maryland (Montgomery College Campus) - A water tank is turned into a world globe - a "geographic representation" of Earth as it might appear from space. The globe has become a universal symbol of a well-rounded education, exactly what it represents on this college campus. |
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Coff's Harbour, Australia - Maps are projections of the round earth on flat paper - or, in this case, a raincoat. Maps have broken out of dusty atlases and become part of the popular domain. They appear frequently on the landscape, in advertisements, and in organizational logos. Like globes, they are models of the earth. |
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A Moroccan student's quiz on the United States. - A comprehensize knowledge of geography is expected in most of the world. Note the detail (albeit sometimes incorrect!) in this Moroccan student's quiz map of the US. We challenge children to learn from maps, then we use maps to determine how much they learned. Source: D.J. Zeigler, from Rabat, Morocco |
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A Sample Question from the National Geography Challenge 1996 (Grades 10-12) which illustrates. . .
What projection is used on this world map?
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