Geography 1400F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Great-Circle Distance, Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinate System, Mercator Projection
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Human health reflects complex interplay two general characteristics: individuals (age, structure, lifestyles) and circumstances in which they live both environmental and social. Considerable research on relationship of individual factors (smoking) as well as causal relationships between different environmental conditions and health. H. j. de blij, if a picture is worth a thousand words, a map can be worth a million- but beware because can distort reality, use generalization, symbolization to highlight critical info and suppress lower priority details. Map is two dimensional spatial representation of any part of our world. A map projection is system for displaying curved surface of earth on flat sheet of paper. Cartographer tries to flatten earth, something always wrong, duty to select and preserve those relationships important for the purpose at hand, and to minimize those distortions that are inevitable but unimportant. Best way to model earth"s surface accurately would be show it on a globe, not as convenient as flat maps.
