Today we started our new topic, on Food and Farming. We will be looking at foods from different parts of the world. In order to do that, we need to know where the continents of the world are. We started to draw a world map in our books. Map drawing is a useful skill.
We looked at two different ways of showing the continents on a flat map. Which one is right? Neither of them can be completely right, because the real world is a sphere, and a map is flat. The Peters Projection shows the areas of the continents well, although it changes the shapes quite a lot. The Mercator Projection shows the positions and shapes better, but the areas of the continents are not right.
Today we started our new topic, on Food and Farming. We will be looking at foods from different parts of the world. In order to do that, we need to know where the continents of the world are. We started to draw a world map in our books. Map drawing is a useful skill.
We looked at two different ways of showing the continents on a flat map. Which one is right? Neither of them can be completely right, because the real world is a sphere, and a map is flat. The Peters Projection shows the areas of the continents well, although it changes the shapes quite a lot. The Mercator Projection shows the positions and shapes better, but the areas of the continents are not right.
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