Thursday, May 8, 2014

1. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. It is almost completed covered in a sheet of ice, and can get freezing cold. There are East Antarctica and West Antarctica. They are separated by the 1,9000-mile-long Transantartic Mountains. The name Antarctica actually means, opposite to the Arctic. If you want a nice relaxing place to vacation, don't go to Antarctica. It may be beautiful one day, but the next, it can be totally dreadful.


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3. A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs, an consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

4.On average Antarctica gets less than 2 inches a year, mostly as snow.


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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Space: Global Positioning System (GPS) Constellation

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1. The Global Positioning System is a navigation system that can tell you where you are and map a route of where you want to go. Anywhere on the earth that is in the line three or more GPS satellites can be navigated.



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  1. 3. Some uses of a GPS is finding where you are when you are backtracking, traveling in a car on vacation, when you are lost, finding a certain place/item, and so much more. 

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Repeat Photography

1. Repeat photography is when you take a picture of a certain spot, then few/many years later you take a picture of the same spot in the same angle.

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3. It is useful in geography and historical analysis because it can show you how much or how the area changed. It can show that this one area had more plant life in 1999 than in 2014, or how human population has changed in that area. It can show that there was a earthquake in that area, because of the rift valley.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

The European Union

1. The European Union is a economic and political union. It's members are from 28 different countries.

2.European-Union-Map



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~There is no conflict between membered countries. You won't have to fight each other everyday.
~ Have free movement between membered countries. Go to the other countries.
~ National identity of members is not compromised. People won't be mean just because of your national identity.

~ No common language. Hard to understand each other.
~ Hard to withdraw from EU once you have joined. What happens when you have to leave for a personal problem?
~ Can kick out leader of government. Bad for the leader of government, can be kicked out at anytime.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Cartograms

1. A cartogram is a map that shows data proportionately to the land. They are useful because they can help to see which country is most populated or has/had the most slaves. They can show how many __ are in each country.


                                            Teenage Mothers

This cartogram shows how many teenage mothers are in the world.  A third of all the teenage mothers in the world live in India, and the fewest teenage mothers are in Japan. I chose this cartogram because the question, who has the most teenage mothers in the world, so this answered it for me.



                           Total Children

This cartogram shows how many children there are in the world. Children under 15 are shown in this map. In Uganda and Niger, half the population is under 15 years old. In 2004 there were only 1,826 million children under 15. I chose this cartogram because I always though that the U.S had the most kids, but this showed me otherwise.