The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography (5th by Harm J. de Blij, Peter O. Muller, Jan Nijman, Antoinette M.

The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography (5th by Harm J. de Blij, Peter O. Muller, Jan Nijman, Antoinette M.

By Harm J. de Blij, Peter O. Muller, Jan Nijman, Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins

A person drawn to studying approximately geographic strategies will delight in this concise text, that highlights crucial techniques. The 5th version offers authoritative content material, foreign money, and notable cartography. It maintains to construct on its power for realizing maps with the aid of extra query kinds. New coauthor Jan Nijman additionally is helping offer a present view of the sphere. With its updated details and obtainable advent, this text is enticing for any pupil.

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A map such as Figure G-1 is called a small-scale map because the ratio between map distance and real-world distance, expressed as a fraction, is very small at 1:103,750,000. Increase that fraction, and you can represent less territory—but also enhance the amount of detail the map can represent. In Figure G-2, note how the fraction increases from the smallest (1:103,000,000) to the largest (1:1,000,000). Montreal, Canada is just a dot on Map A but an urban area on Map D. Does this mean that world maps like Figure G-1 are less useful than larger-scale maps?

You can probably draw from memory a pretty good map of your hometown. These 1 mental maps allow you to navigate your activity space with efficiency, predictability, and safety. When you arrived as a first-year student on a college or university campus, a new mental map will have started forming. At first you needed an online or hardcopy map to find your way around, but soon you dispensed with that because your mental map was sufficient. And it will continue to improve as your activity space expands. If a well-formed mental map is useful for decisions in daily life, then an adequate mental map is surely indispensable when it comes to decision making in the wider world.

Hundreds of thousands of human lives are lost to natural calamities in almost every decade, and such calamities have at times altered the course of history. About a century ago a geographer named Alfred Wegener, a German scientist, used spatial analysis to explain something that is obvious even from a small-scale map like Figure G-1: the apparent, jigsaw-like fit of the landmasses, especially across the South Atlantic Ocean. He concluded that the landmasses on the map are actually pieces of a supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago (he called it Pangaea) that drifted away when, for some reason, that supercontinent broke up.

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