Discussion: How can you make a flat map of a round earth?

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2013-10-21T10:38:13-06:00

You are about to try and make a globe out of a flat map!

Using an atlas please draw a world map on a piece of graph paper. Your map will not be perfect! Only worry about drawing the outline of the 7 continents. Label the continents and the oceans.

Link to online atlas

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Get a tennis ball or some other round object. You will be covering the ball with your world map. Keep this in mind as you draw your map.

Please answer the following 2 questions in the reply box. Each question is worth 1 point.

1. What happened to the lines on the graph paper at the “poles” of the ball?

2. How did you solve this problem?