Class 9/15, Peters and Mercator Map

To start off my blog today I would like to address the fact that it was terribly hot in Mr. Schick's room. It was semi-unbearable in all honesty. I seriously thought that I was going to faint. Then, to make matters worse, a rather large bee flew into the classroom through the window and landed on my desk. Mr. Schick then swatted it out of the room with my notebook. Moving on from those travesties that took place, we discussed maps and how they can distort our perspective on the world. We talked about two different types of maps, the Peters World Map and the Mercator World Map. The Mercator Map is the one that most people are most familiar with even though it is in reality incorrect. Due to the way is was constructed, it distorted the size of continents and many countries. The reasoning for this is that the latitude and longitude lines do not meet at 90 degree angles on the map. On the Peters World Map they do which displays the correct size of the countries and continents. The size distortion may also play a role in how we view countries as we often associate size with importance.