{"id":22808,"date":"2023-07-03T02:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/latitude-and-longitude-map-projections-map-scales-and-modern-mapping-technologies\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T02:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:39:49","slug":"latitude-and-longitude-map-projections-map-scales-and-modern-mapping-technologies","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/latitude-and-longitude-map-projections-map-scales-and-modern-mapping-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"latitude and longitude, map projections, map scales, and modern mapping technologies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The topic of this Homework is latitude and longitude, map projections, map scales, and modern mapping technologies. Address the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 1em 0px 0px; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What is the difference between a meridian (or longitude) and a parallel (or latitude)? Indicate the latitude and longitude of 5 of the following locations (your choice):\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Statue of Liberty<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mount Rushmore<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Eiffel Tower<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Taj Mahal<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Sydney Opera House<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mount Fuji<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Stonehenge&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">List and describe the four types of distortions that can result from map projections.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">List and describe the three ways to indicate scale on a map.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What are GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing and how do these technologies contribute to more accurate and timely geographic information on Earth?<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">How do you use these technologies (if any) in your everyday life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic of this Homework is latitude and longitude, map projections, map scales, and modern mapping technologies. Address the following: What is the difference between a meridian (or longitude) and a parallel (or latitude)? Indicate the latitude and longitude of 5 of the following locations (your choice): The Statue of Liberty Mount Rushmore The Eiffel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}