Today in human geo class we finished our group presentations on the population pyramid activities. My group found out we were not the only ones to pick the B activity instead of the A. I found out many interesting things today in class, and many of the presentations were funny. Over all it was a very fun human geography class, and I learned a lot today.
Human Geography Class Today in human geography class we talked about maps. The main map almost every school uses is a Mercator map. Mr. Schick showed us a video from a tv show that used to air a couple years ago. The clip we watched was about a group of people that were having a discussion with the president on changing the maps that almost every school uses. They showed the president how inaccurate the Mercator map was. It showed Africa as a small continent, when really it is much larger, and it makes the United States much larger looking than it really is. The group proposed the idea and came up with a solution to the problem. They wanted to replace the maps with a new, more accurate map called the gall-peters map. After the video, Mr. Schick continued to le...
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