but at the cost of misshapen continents and bent meridians. Areas near both the equator and prime meridian are accurate, but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. This attempt at ...

The first, the Mercator projection map, shows everything where it should be, but it makes landmasses further from the equator ... continents. As such, it didn’t provide an accurate view of the ...

Contrary to the map ... the equator. This map shows that in reality, Brazil is almost as large as Canada, even though it appears to be much smaller on Mercator maps. Thinking about the world ...

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans ... After watching the film, teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the video are ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries ... the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. The north of Africa shares a boundary with ...