Looking at the world on a map


Let’s imagine this orange is our globe. If we cut the skin off this orange in one piece and spread it out so that the skin lies flat, the orange skin will be this shape:


Now if we could cut the skin off the globe we would have a flat map like this:


Europe


North America


ATLANTIC OCEAN


PACIFIC OCEAN


South America


ATLANTIC OCEAN


Asia


PACIFIC OCEAN


Africa


INDIAN OCEAN


Australia SOUTHERN OCEAN Antarctica


We cannot carry a globe around very easily. But we can carry a sheet of paper. A map can be drawn on a sheet of paper or in a book. But how do we transfer the information on the globe to a flat sheet of paper?


50 Module 3: Map skills


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